A federal appeals court vacated the award of $52 million to a pair of "whistleblowers" whose fraud suit on behalf of the United States against SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories was settled for $325 million. The unanimous three-judge panel found the lower court improperly barred Justice Department lawyers from arguing that the whistleblowers were not the "original sources" of the information and not entitled to a share of the settlement.
March 01, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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A federal appeals court yesterday vacated the award of $52 million to a pair of “whistleblowers” whose fraud suit on behalf of the United States against SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories Inc. was settled for $325 million.
The unanimous three-judge panel found that the lower court improperly barred Justice Department lawyers from arguing that the whistleblowers were not the “original sources” of the information.
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