Graham County, North Carolina, goes to the Supreme Court, again
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a decision against the Graham County (North Carolina) Soil & Water Conservation District for the second time. In its first trip, the District persuaded the Supreme Court that whistleblower Karen Wilson had to follow North Carolina's three-year statute of limitations for her retaliation claims, and could not rely on the six-year time limit in the federal False Claims Act (FCA). Graham County Soil & Water Conservation Dist. v. United States ex rel. Wilson, 545 U.S. 409 (2005). Now, the District is trying to evade liability altogether by asking the Supreme Court to say that state and local administrative proceedings bar whistleblowers from bringing fraud actions on behalf of the federal government.
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