In a ruling dismissing a qui tam action, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit explained how the whistleblower can still collect.

Judge Beverly Martin gave a tutorial on the workings of the U.S. False Claims Act in a 12-page opinion Wednesday joined by Eleventh Circuit Judge William Pryor and Senior Judge Bobby Baldock of the Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation. And Martin drew a map to collecting a relator’s share even when a case is dismissed, as this one was, for lack of jurisdiction. The Eleventh Circuit considered the appeal under “provisional jurisdiction” which then “evaporates” with the opinion.