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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:04:38 -0700
To: harold@halcyon.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: "Qui Tam Action"

Confer at "Qui tam action" in Black's Law Dictionary.

See U.S. v. Florida-Vanderbilt Development Corp.,
D.C.Fla., 326 F.Supp. 289, 290.

See also False Claims Act;  Whistle-blower Acts,
as cited in Black's supra.

"Qui tam pro domino rege quam pro si ipso 
 in hac parte sequitur."

"Who sues on behalf of the King
 [sues] as well as for himself."

The plaintiff states that he sues as well for
the state as for himself.


/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com

p.s.  Cicero would have said "Key Tam";
contemporary practice is to say "Qwee Tam".





At 08:51 PM 7/13/97 -0700, you wrote:
>On the TV show "Burden of Spoof", I happened to catch one of the
>attorneys mention something called a "Key Tam Action" (spelled
>phonetically).  According to this attorney this is an obscure, little
>known or used action in which a private citizen can notify the gov't
>(state or federal, I assume) of a violation of its rights or property.
>The notified gov't can opt in or opt out of the action proposed by the
>citizen.  If the gov't opts out, the citizen can prosecute the case on
>his own.
>
>Have any of you heard of this type of action?  Does this hold any
>interesting possibilities with regard to the violation of a state's
>rights or property by, say, the federal gov't?
>
>Just curious.
>
>Harold
>
>
>

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