The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a False Claims Act lawsuit accusing two military contractors in Iraq of bribery and bid-rigging.

The lawsuit was brought by a former employee who served 10 months in prison before blowing the whistle on “rampant war-time contract fraud” worth millions of dollars. A federal judge in Alabama dismissed the lawsuit, writing that Billy Joe Hunt missed the applicable three-year deadline for bringing his claims against Pasadena, California’s Parsons Infrastructure & Technology and Florida-based Cochise Security.