Can I Bring Qui Tam Claims in Court Even Though My Employment Contract Contained a Binding Arbitration Clause? The Ninth Circuit Says “Yes.”
When a private party brings an action under the False Claims Act, he or she sues not “only for himself but the king” in what is known as a qui tam lawsuit. The private plaintiff is called the relator. United States ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New York, 556 U.S. 928, 932 (2009). As a synopsis, the process works like…