A suit accusing Washington, D.C., law firm Phillips & Cohen of orchestrating the theft of a company’s data in order to build a False Claims Act case against it has been dismissed by a Superior Court judge in Middlesex County, N.J., who said the claims should be brought in connection with a separate suit pending in California.
Superior Court Judge Douglas Wolfson dismissed the case in a July 7 order, after finding that the data theft claims belonged in a separate whistleblower suit that Phillips & Cohen brought against J-M Manufacturing Co., in federal court in Los Angeles, which is ongoing.
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