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

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