The estate of a whistleblower asked the US Supreme Court to review a decision that threw out an award share following a False Claims Act settlement with defense contractor Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision to vacate a $1.1 million whistleblower share of a $13.7 million settlement, if allowed to stand, would impair whistleblower rights under the FCA, attorneys for the estate of Bud Conyers said in petition for writ of certiorari docketed Jan. 2.

Conyers, who had worked as a truck driver for KBR in Iraq, started this ...

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