Case Name: James R. BRICKMAN, Greenlight Capital, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America ex rel, Plaintiff, v. BUSINESS LOAN EXPRESS LLC, f.k.a. Business Loan Express, Inc., Business Loan Center, LLC, f.k.a. Business Loan Center, Inc., Robert Tannenhauser, Matthew McGee, George Harrigan, Does 1-100, Defendants-Appellees, Allied Capital Corp., et al., Defendants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-02-05
Citations: 310 F. App'x 322
Docket Number: No. 08-10282
Parties: James R. BRICKMAN, Greenlight Capital, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America ex rel, Plaintiff, v. BUSINESS LOAN EXPRESS LLC, f.k.a. Business Loan Express, Inc., Business Loan Center, LLC, f.k.a. Business Loan Center, Inc., Robert Tannenhauser, Matthew McGee, George Harrigan, Does 1-100, Defendants-Appellees, Allied Capital Corp., et al., Defendants.
Judges: Before BARKETT, PRYOR and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 310
Pages: 322–323

Head Matter:
James R. BRICKMAN, Greenlight Capital, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America ex rel, Plaintiff, v. BUSINESS LOAN EXPRESS LLC, f.k.a. Business Loan Express, Inc., Business Loan Center, LLC, f.k.a. Business Loan Center, Inc., Robert Tannenhauser, Matthew McGee, George Harrigan, Does 1-100, Defendants-Appellees, Allied Capital Corp., et al., Defendants.
No. 08-10282.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Feb. 5, 2009.
Michael Lawrence Brown, Michael P. Kenny, William Clay Massey, Van A. Anderson, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
John E. Floyd, Benjamin E. Fox, Bon-durant, Mixson & Elmore, Arthur W. Leach, Leah Ann Epstein, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Atlanta, GA, Anne Harkavy, Jonathan Edward Paikin, Thomas F. Connell, Brent Robert Bickley, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appel-lees.
Before BARKETT, PRYOR and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.
Honorable Jerome Farris, United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
James R. Brickman and Greenlight Capital, Inc. (collectively, "Relators") appeal from the dismissal of their complaint against Business Loan Express, LLC, Pk/a Business Loan Express, Inc.; Business Loan Center, LLC, pk/a Business Loan Center, Inc.; Robert Tannenhauser; Matthew McGee; and George Harrigan (collectively, "BLX"). The complaint, filed under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., alleged that BLX had participated in a secret scheme to defraud the United States Small Business Administration out of tens of millions of dollars.
The district court ruled that the Rela-tors' claims of fraud were based upon information that had been publicly disclosed or was otherwise publicly available prior to the filing of the action, and thus, the public disclosure bar of the FCA, 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(A), deprived it of subject matter jurisdiction to resolve the fraud claims.
We find no reversible error. The uncontested factual record demonstrates that the complaint in this case was derived entirely from information available to any member of the public and that the Rela-tors had no direct, personal knowledge of any of the parties or transactions at issue here.
AFFIRMED.