US Cellular Corp. showed that a federal district court properly dismissed a False Claims Act suit alleging that it lied to the FCC in order to win spectrum licenses in auctions worth millions of dollars, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday.
The district court correctly determined that the suit must be dismissed under the FCA’s public disclosure bar because whistleblowers Mark O’Connor and Sara Leibman based their suit on a previously filed FCA case, Judge Neomi Rao of the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed.
The 2015 suit alleges that US Cellular, as well as Carroll Wireless LP, ...
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