Lockheed Martin Gets Aircraft Parts Fraud Lawsuit Thrown Out

Lockheed Martin Corp. won dismissal of a whistleblower’s False Claims Act suit alleging that the company improperly billed the government for aircraft parts because the suit is related to a previously filed action, a Texas federal district court said.

Former Lockheed Martin auditor Maria Del Carmen Gamboa Ferguson’s suit triggered the FCA’s first-to-file bar, which precludes suits when a person, other than the government, brings a related action based on facts underlying a pending action, Judge Reed O’Connor of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said in a Tuesday opinion, granting Lockheed’s motion to dismiss without ...