United States ex rel. Findley v. FPC-Boron Employees' Club

How later courts describe this case

• noting that in that case, most of the comments were not directed at plaintiff, a fact which contributed to the conclusion that the conduct was not severe enough to create an objectively hostile environment
• “The Act triggers the jurisdictional bar only when there has been a public disclosure of ‘allegations or transactions’ which it explicitly refers to in the disjunctive.”
• relator, who gained his knowledge of the allegations in the complaint from his attendance at a meeting, did not have “direct” knowledge, his knowledge was not “firsthand”
• “the jurisdictional bar ... encompass[es] situations in which the relator’s complaint repeats what the public already knows, even though she had learned about the fraud independent of the public disclosures”
• the public disclosures were sufficient to raise the specter of foul play