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25A901 Eli Lilly and Company v. United States, et al., ex. rel., Ronald J. Streck Seventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Application average-manufacturer-price false-claims-act medicaid-rebate pharmaceutical-regulation qui-tam statutory-interpretation Question not identified. The petition text provided is an "Application for an Extension of Time" to file a petition for certiorari, not a petition fo…
25A866 Biotronik, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Sam Jones Company, LLC Ninth Circuit 2026-02-02 Application circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation Question not identified. The document provided is an "Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," not a petition …
25-893 Robert V. Smith v. Jay A. Odom, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending false-claims-act fraud-prevention original-source public-disclosure statutory-interpretation whistleblower Whether the requirement in 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(B) that a relator have "knowledge that is independent of and materially adds to the publicly disclos…
25-728 United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending circuit-split false-claims-act fraudulent-billing government-claims qui-tam rule-9b Whether a qui tam complaint satisfies Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) when it alleges detailed firsthand knowledge of a fraudulent billing scheme…
25-6358 Larry E. Webster, Jr. v. Bala Davuluri Fifth Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending IFP false-claims-act first-amendment hipaa-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress medicaid-jurisdiction medical-malpractice Under Article III of the Constitution, Federal courts can hear 'all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, [and] the laws of the U…
25A541 United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-10 Application circuit-split false-claims-act medical-billing medicare-fraud pleading-standard rule-9b Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires False Claims Act plaintiffs to identify specific false claim submissions when pleading a fraudul…
25-6016 Todd White v. ACell, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split due-process false-claims-act fifth-amendment summary-judgment 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by denying his motion …
25-347 United States and Michigan, ex rel. Erik Olsen, et al. v. Tenet Healthcare Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (1) billing-records circuit-split false-claims-act qui-tam rule-9b whistleblower The circuits are intractably divided over whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) permits False Claims Act suits by plaintiffs who possess detail…
25-271 United States, ex rel. Mark J. O'Connor, et al. v. USCC Wireless Investment, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-defense civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality public-disclosure qui-tam 1. Whether the D.C. Circuit erred by requiring plaintiffs to anticipate and negate in their complaint a False Claims Act affirmative defense, in direc…
25A64 United States and Michigan, ex rel. Erik Olsen, et al. v. Tenet Healthcare Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-16 Presumed Complete false-claims-act government-healthcare medicare-fraud pleading-standard qui-tam rule-9b 1. This case presents an important question that deeply divides the circuits over whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s heightened pleading s…
25A9 United States, ex rel. Mark J. O'Connor, et al. v. USCC Wireless Investment, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete false-claims-act fraud-allegations original-source public-disclosure qui-tam whistleblower Question not identified. The document provided is an "Application to Extend Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," not a petition for a w…
24-7428 Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Gavin Newsom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied IFP employer-mandate false-claims-act honest-services-fraud immigration-status medicaid-fraud rico-act Whether federal funds for Medicaid were fraudulently used to subsidize health coverage for undocumented immigrants through California state legislatio…
24-1179 United States, ex rel. Ganesa Rosales, et al. v. Amedisys North Carolina, L.L.C., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied false-claims-act federal-civil-procedure first-to-file-rule government-intervention qui-tam subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether an action asserting False Claims Act claims is a 'related action' under the First to File rule when the government declines intervention and t…
24-1035 Omni Healthcare, Inc. v. U.S. Oncology, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure qui-tam relator Is a qui tam relator barred by the 'public disclosure' of its own prior complaint, and does the public-disclosure bar apply to the unsealing of a firs…
24-845 Steven Zorn, et al. v. Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act fraud-allegation public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation Whether the public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act requires an express allegation of fraud
24A719 Todd White v. ACell, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-22 Presumed Complete evidentiary-ruling false-claims-act jury-verdict pro-se-plaintiff retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether a pro se plaintiff can challenge a jury verdict in a False Claims Act retaliation case without first moving for judgment as a matter of law or…
24-6234 Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. District of Columbia 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general dismissal false-claims-act jurisdiction qui-tam relator Does the District Court have jurisdiction to dismiss a False Claims Act action without a written explanation from the court and Attorney General, and …
24-705 Bud Conyers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response Waived false-claims-act government-intervention relator-share settlement-agreement statutory-interpretation whistleblower-rights Whether the Government can unilaterally reduce a whistleblower's statutory share in a False Claims Act case through strategic settlement agreement lan…
24A627 United States v. Steven Zorn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete civil-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines false-claims-act medicaid-fraud qui-tam Whether the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment limits the civil penalty amount in qui tam False Claims Act cases where the government decl…
24A594 Steven Zorn, et al. v. Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-17 Presumed Complete audit-letter billing-codes false-claims-act public-disclosure-bar qui-tam scienter Whether the False Claims Act's public disclosure bar precludes a qui tam action when an audit letter does not explicitly allege intentional fraud but …
24-599 United States, ex rel. Gregor Lesnik, et al. v. ISM VUZEM, d.o.o., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied administrative-procedure false-claims-act government-obligation immigration-law statutory-interpretation visa-fraud Whether knowingly applying impermissibly for the less expensive B1 visas, rather than alternative petition-based visas, was knowingly and improperly '…
24-549 Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa v. Steven Zorn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause false-claims-act qui-tam statutory-damages Whether the False Claims Act's statutory civil penalty must be limited to a single-digit multiplier of actual damages under the Eighth Amendment's Exc…
24-542 United States, ex rel. James Heron v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Tenth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) false-claims-act foreclosure-fraud materiality-standard original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam What standard should courts use to determine whether a qui tam relator's allegations or alleged transactions are 'substantially the same' as those tha…
24-352 United States, et al., ex rel. Michael Angelo and MSP WB, LLC v. Allstate Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied Response Waived false-claims-act government-obligation pleading-standard qui-tam reverse-false-claim third-party-contractor Whether relators can state a reverse false claim based on defendants' impairment of third-party government contractors' obligations and whether knowle…
24-235 Asif Sayeed, et al. v. Stop Illinois Health Care Fraud, LLC Seventh Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response Waived anti-kickback-statute false-claims-act indirect-referral legal-knowledge referral-definition willful-conduct Must a defendant know their conduct violates the law to act 'willfully' under the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute?
24-9 Michael Angelo v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act government-consent government-veto post-filing-release post-filing-settlement qui-tam relator settlement-agreement Whether a private release agreement between a relator and a qui tam defendant, executed after the filing of the qui tam action, is enforceable when th…
23A1110 Dana Johnson v. Raytheon Company Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Presumed Complete false-claims-act government-contractor judicial-review navy-contract retaliation security-clearance Whether the judicial review doctrine established in Department of Navy v. Egan precludes False Claims Act retaliation claims by employees of governmen…
23-7469 Kenneth Del Signore v. Nokia of America Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rules due-process false-claims-act medical-records pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing summary-judgment whistleblower-retaliation Should a Pro Se Plaintiff be granted special considerations by Federal Judges based on their lack of experience with the Federal Rules?
23-1127 Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Todd Heath Seventh Circuit 2024-04-17 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-agency administrative-corporation circuit-conflict circuit-split e-rate-program false-claims-act government-funding telecommunications-act telecommunications-act-of-1996 Whether reimbursement requests submitted to the E-rate program are 'claims' under the False Claims Act
23A901 Carl Gordon v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Presumed Complete california-constitution conflict-of-interest constitutional-authority false-claims-act gubernatorial-recall void-ab-initio Whether the California gubernatorial recall election and laws enacted during that period are void ab initio due to Governor Newsom's alleged lack of c…
23-1093 Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., et al. v. Zachary Silbersher, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) false-claims-act federal-administrative-hearing federal-report inter-partes-review public-disclosure-bar qui-tam Whether a relator can avoid the public disclosure bar by stitching together public disclosures
23-7054 Robert N. Young v. King Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust attorney-misconduct court-sanctions doj-fraud-recoveries false-claims-act judicial-procedure medicaid-drug-rebates medicaid-fraud qui-tam whistleblower-rights Question not identified
23-813 Brutus Trading, LLC v. Standard Chartered Bank, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure deferred-prosecution-agreement due-process evidentiary-hearing false-claims-act government-dismissal procedural-rights qui-tam statutory-interpretation Whether the Due Process Clause and 31 U.S.C. § 3730(c)(2)(A) and (B) require an evidentiary hearing
23A652 United States Ex Rel. 84Partners, LLC v. General Dynamics Electric Boat, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-16 Presumed Complete false-claims-act fraudulent-scheme pleading-standard qui-tam subsafe-standards whistleblower Whether the False Claims Act requires a qui tam relator to plead with particularity the actual submission of false claims at the pleading stage, beyon…
23-546 Corporate Management, Incorporated, et al. v. United States, ex rel. James Aldridge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy cms due-process executive-compensation false-claims-act government-investigation materiality medicaid medicare medicare-reimbursement pay-and-chase Where the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services makes payments pursuant to a 'pay and chase' policy, are the certifications of Stone County Hospi…
23-252 United States, ex rel. Michelle Calderon v. Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC Seventh Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-review causation civil-penalties civil-procedure due-process false-claims-act materiality summary-judgment Did the Appellate Panel erroneously uphold the granting of summary judgment in favor of Respondent in finding no evidence of causation for a jury to c…
23-139 United States, ex rel. Shannon Martin, M.D., et al. v. Darren Hathaway, M.D., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived anti-kickback-statute false-claims-act federal-health-care-program government-claims healthcare-fraud liability remuneration statutory-interpretation Does the term 'remuneration' under the Anti-Kickback Statute encompass solicitation or receipt of any kind of reward or compensation, or is it limited…
22-1111 Chryssoula Marinos-Arsenis v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Third Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Relisted (3) agency-guidance circuit-split contract-violation due-process false-claims-act government-payment implied-certification materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation Whether the implied certification theory of liability under the False Claims Act is viable
22-6548 United States, ex rel. David Shu v. Nancy Hutt, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied IFP attorney-general civil-rights district-court due-process false-claims-act legal-center lincoln-law pro-se standing statutory-interpretation Whether a pro se is allowed to initially file a False Claims Act (FCA) complaint in a district court without a lawyer?
22-593 United States, ex rel. Deborah Sheldon v. Allergan Sales, LLC Fourth Circuit 2022-12-27 GVR Relisted (5) civil-liability false-claims-act government-fraud knowingly knowledge-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-beliefs subjective-understanding Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it 'kno…
22-571 United States and Michigan, ex rel. Mohamad Sy, et al. v. Oakland Physicians Medical Center, LLC, dba Pontiac General Hospital, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice false-claims-act qui-tam retaliation-claim service-of-process statute-of-limitations Whether a district court may decline a discretionary extension of time to effect service and, in effect, dismiss with prejudice a relator's individual…
22-374 Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 GVR Relisted (5) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to have 'knowingly' violated a provision of federal law can escape liability by articulating, after the f…
22-5601 Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-claims-act free-speech healthcare-liability medicaid-reimbursement ninth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-provisions Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
22-111 United States, et al., ex rel. Thomas Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-05 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contracts knowingly-violated legal-interpretation scienter standing statutory-interpretation subjective-understanding Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it 'kno…
21-1517 Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response Waived and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.…
21-1326 United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it 'knowingly' v…
21-1314 United States, ex rel. Hassan Foreman v. AECOM, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response Waived 31-usc-3729 common-law false-claims-act fraud-prevention government-claims materiality motion-to-dismiss qui-tam statutory-interpretation Is materiality an element of all claims brought under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A)
21-7491 Cassandra Bonita Charles v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process eleventh-amendment false-claims-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does Eleventh Amendment immunity apply when an officer of the court violates 31 U.S. Code 3729?
21-1145 Molina Healthcare of Illinois, Inc., et al. v. Thomas Prose Seventh Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act implied-certification implied-false-certification material-noncompliance materiality pleading-requirements pleading-standard rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-compliance Whether Rule 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases to plead details of the alleged false claims
21-1052 United States, ex rel. Jesse Polansky, M.D., M.P.H. v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (3) civil-procedure false-claims-act federal-procedure government-dismissal judicial-conflict qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation Whether the government has authority to dismiss an FCA suit after initially declining to proceed with the action, and what standard applies if the gov…
21-1025 Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure claim-submission due-process false-claims-act fraud pleading rule-9b statutory-interpretation Whether a circuit split on how to apply Fed. R Civ. P. 9(b) in pleading cases under the False Claims Act requires a more rigorous approach
21-936 United States, et al., ex rel. Cathy Owsley v. Fazzi Associates, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-conflict civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraudulent-scheme pleading pleading-particularity rule-9(b) rule-9b standing Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also pl…
21-796 Marchand & Rossi, L.L.P., nka Marchand Law, L.L.P. v. Bryan K. White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) false-claims-act first-to-file-rule fraud fraud-prosecution jurisdictional-bar parallel-state-laws qui-tam statutory-interpretation whistleblower Whether the FCA first-to-file rule allows dismissal of independently viable claims
21-741 Thomas E. Parker, et al. v. Sea-Mar Community Health Center Ninth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied appointment-billing dental dental-services double-billing false-claims-act fraud healthcare-billing medicaid medicaid-fraud standard-of-care Does a plaintiff state a claim under the False Claims Act by alleging a purposeful scheme to fraudulently double rates charged to Medicaid for pediatr…
21-626 Boyd & Associates v. Bryan K. White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act first-to-file-bar jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal medicaid-fraud sebelius-v-auburn-regional-medical-center Whether the First-to-File Bar of the False Claims Act is jurisdictional
21-472 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law appellate-review civil-forfeiture debt-collection due-process false-claims-act rulemaking universal-service-fund Whether FCC staff seizure of Universal Service Fund funding via civil forfeiture is 'pure debt collection' under the Debt Collection Improvement Act o…
21-462 Jolie Johnson, et al. v. Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraud-pleading government-claims pleading rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-interpretation Whether Rule 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also plead specific details of fal…
21-443 William Beaumont Hospital v. United States, ex rel. David Felten Sixth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure employee employment-status false-claims-act qui-tam retaliation standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether the term 'employee' in 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)(1) includes someone who is no longer an employee when the alleged retaliation takes place
21-5018 In Re Zoe Ajjahnon 2021-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process false-claims-act federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se-litigant summary-judgment third-circuit-court Whether the False Claims Act statutes preclude established standards of Federal Rules for Civil Procedure Rule 56 in a default/summary judgment conclu…
20-1625 David Lillie v. ManTech International Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response Waived california-labor-code civil-procedure false-claims-act retaliation retaliation-statute rule-50 rule-50-motion statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-statute Whether Section 1102.5(b) requires a whistleblower to identify a specific statute, rule, or regulation
20-1554 Citizens Against Corporate Crime, LLC v. Lennar Corporation Third Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law claim-release false-claims-act government-investigation government-official investigation public-interest qui-tam release Whether a false claims act qui tam claim on behalf of the public may be released in a bankruptcy case prior to the appropriate government official obt…
20-1463 Mortgage Investors Corporation, et al. v. United States ex rel. Victor E. Bibby, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response Waived agency-actions agency-knowledge false-claims-act fee-noncompliance government-agency government-payment-decision materiality regulatory-compliance veterans-affairs When a government agency pays claims despite actual awareness of widespread noncompliance with certain regulatory requirements, whether evidence of ag…
20-7606 Zoe Ajjahnon v. St. Joseph's University Medical Center, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-claims-act fera-2009 fourteenth-amendment fraud-enforcement-and-recovery-act government-damages non-government-claim standing Whether the False Claims Act claim is viable for recovery of plaintiff's individual damages under 31 U.S.C. §3729(b)(2)(A)(ii) and whether the due pro…
20-805 RollinsNelson LTC Corp., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Jane Winters Ninth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied civil-rights due-process false-claims-act healthcare-provider inpatient-care medical-judgment medical-necessity medicare medicare-reimbursement objective-falsehood objective-falsity Whether the False Claims Act requires pleading and proof of an objectively false statement
20-786 United States, ex rel. Gwendolyn Porter v. Magnolia Health Plan, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality materiality-requirement motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards proof rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 Whether Escobar overruled or modified the Twombly/Iqbal pleading standard for Rule 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss in False Claims Act cases
20-781 United States, ex rel. Concilio de Salud Integral de Loíza, Inc., et al. v. J.C. Remodeling, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Relisted (2) benefit-of-bargain benefit-of-the-bargain circuit-split damages damages-calculation false-claims-act intangible-benefits prejudice tainted-claim-theory treble-damages Whether courts should allow gross trebling or net trebling of damages under the False Claims Act
20-581 United States, ex rel. Integra Med Analytics, L.L.C. v. Baylor Scott & White Health, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response Waived 3rd-circuit 5th-circuit alternative-explanation alternative-explanations false-claims-act federal-procedure pleading-standards relator statistical-analysis Whether a relator may use statistical analyses to plausibly allege the submission of false claims under the False Claims Act
20-461 United States, ex rel., Charles W. Houpt v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response Waived accountability false-claims-act fraud fraudulent-conduct government-intervention qui-tam-relator relator sba-guarantee statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that a three year statute of limitations applied
20-371 Care Alternatives v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split clinical-judgment false-claims-act hospice-care life-expectancy medical-certification medicare medicare-claims physician-opinion Whether a physician's honestly held clinical judgment regarding hospice certification can be 'false' under the False-Claims-Act based solely on a reas…
20-286 United States, ex rel. Stacey L. Janssen, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Megen Corin Duffy v. Lawrence Memorial Hospital Tenth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act materiality medicare medicare-reimbursement patient-arrival-times quality-reporting reimbursement statutory statutory-quality-reporting Whether a Medicare provider's knowing falsifications of hospital patient arrival times, known by the hospital to be material to statutory quality repo…
20-210 Jing Shu Zheng v. Christina Ellis, et vir Ninth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived civil-penalties civil-rights due-process false-claims-act promissory-fraud section-8-housing treble-damages Whether the number of FCA civil penalties is based upon the number of overpayments received by a Section 8 landlord or whether they are based upon the…
20-5228 United States, ex rel. Friedrich Lu v. Ramandeep Samra, et al. First Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-representation circuit-court civil-procedure false-claims-act jurisdiction legal-representation pro-se qui-tam standing Whether a relator may proceed pro se under the False Claims Act
20-44 In Re David A. Golden 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process false-claims-act free-speech judicial-discretion rule-of-law standing Whether the 9th Circuit and Western Washington District Court have abused their discretion
19-8455 Michael Alan Bruzzone v. James McManis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-espionage false-claims-act federal-recovery judicial-misconduct qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation Can federal judges intentionally err to conceal economic espionage
19-1197 GwanJun Kim v. City of Ionia, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-04 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure collateral-review exclusive-possession false-claims-act federal-cause-of-action legal-standards pleading-standards retroactivity rule-9b section-10b securities-fraud Whether the relaxed pleading standard for claims where evidence lies within the defendant's exclusive possession applies to claims under Section 10(b)…
19-1149 UPMC, et al. v. United States, ex rel. J. William Bookwalter, III, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived ambiguity civil-penalty civil-procedure false-claims-act knowledge knowledge-standard pleading-standard regulatory-ambiguity regulatory-provision scienter treble-damages Whether a plaintiff plausibly alleges scienter—that a defendant knowingly submitted false claims—when the plaintiff does not allege any facts to sugge…
19-7729 Aaron New v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion contradict this Court's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2…
19-1008 Jim C. Hodge, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied but-for-causation causation causation-standard false-claims-act foreseeability fraud legal-elements proximate-cause substantial-factor Whether the causation element standard under the False Claims Act is proximate cause, requiring both that the harm was foreseeable and that the false …
19-7641 Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend prote…
19-892 United States, ex rel. Andrew Gelbman v. City of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response Waived false-claims-act fraud inference-drawing medicaid medicaid-fraud pleading-standard private-sector public-sector public-sector-providers rule-9b-dismissal Whether the pleading standard should be different for False Claims Act claims against public sector Medicaid providers than it is for such claims agai…
19-7317 Florence R. Parker Chailla v. Navient Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied IFP anti-retaliation-law civil-rights due-process false-claims-act government-fraud higher-education-act motion-to-dismiss nonparty-intervention qui-tam relator retaliation standing Can an illegal decision be upheld that granted a nonparty' motion to dismiss after it refused to intervene in a False Claims Act lawsuit filed by a pr…
19-678 United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-26 Denied administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q…
19-583 Estate of Robert Cunningham, et al. v. Mark McGuire First Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied facts-underlying false-claims-act first-to-file-bar judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-provision legal-standing pleadings procedural-analysis qui-tam statutory-interpretation Whether Section 3730(b)(5) of the False Claims Act is a jurisdictional provision that permits courts to consider all of the 'facts underlying the pend…
19-228 United States, ex rel. Michael Ray Perry v. Hooker Creek Asphalt & Paving, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure false-claims-act insider-knowledge particularity-pleading personal-knowledge pleading-requirements qui-tam rule-9(b) rule-9b Whether a relator in a qui tam action under the False Claims Act must be an insider with personal knowledge of the contractor's claim submissions to m…
19-225 United States, ex rel. Stephanie Strubbe, et al. v. Crawford County Memorial Hospital, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) billing civil-procedure false-claims-act medicare medicare-billing motion-to-dismiss pleading protected-activity qui-tam whistleblower Must these employees, Relators in a suit brought under the False Claims Act, have seen and therefore pled the exact content of billings sent to Medica…
18-1312 Steven Mateski v. Raytheon Company Ninth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure false-certification false-claims false-claims-act fraud fraud-allegations government-contract government-contracts materiality rule-9(b) rule-9b subcontract-compliance Whether the complaint provided sufficient notice of the alleged false claims against Raytheon under Rule 9(b), and whether the alleged false claims we…
18-8417 Robert Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 18-usc-287 circuit-split criminal-law false-claim false-claims false-claims-act good-faith-defense knowledge mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfulness Whether the mens rea element for a false claim prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 287 requires willfulness or mere knowledge
18-1124 Stephens Institute, dba Academy of Art University v. United States, ex rel. Scott Rose, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response Waived department-of-education escobar escobar-standard false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca federal-financial-aid financial-aid incentive-compensation-ban incentive-compensation-ban-icb materiality materiality-standard universal-health-services-v-escobar Alleged failure to disclose noncompliance with the incentive compensation ban (ICB) was material to the Department of Education's decision to make fed…
18-1044 PharMerica Corporation v. United States, ex rel. Marc Silver Third Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act fraud original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam qui-tam-action statutory-interpretation Whether a relator's admission that he derived his complaint from public disclosures triggers the public disclosure bar, whether the public disclosure …
18-1030 United States, ex rel. Thomas A. Berg, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response Waived energy-savings-performance-contract false-claims-act government-knowledge materiality scienter statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements utility-cost-savings Are guaranteed savings' which will actually result in higher aggregate utility costs true 'savings' under 42 U.S.C. § 8287(a)(2)(B)?
18-1009 United States, ex rel. Muge Cody v. ManTech International Corporation Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circumstantial-evidence defense-contractor-whistleblower-protection-act false-claims-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-50(b) judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing rule-50 whistleblower-protection Whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the Defense Contractor Whistle…
18-911 Intermountain Health Care, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Gerald Polukoff, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-14 Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived appointments-clause civil-procedure civil-procedure-9(b) false-claims-act fraud particularity-requirement pleading-standards qui-tam rule-9b standing Whether a court may create an exception to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s particularity requirement when the plaintiff claims that only the de…
18-699 Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Marjorie Prather Sixth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contractors government-payment materiality pleading-requirements regulatory-violation scienter Whether the failure to plead facts relating to past government practices in an FCA action can weigh against a finding of materiality
18-418 United States, ex rel. Leatra Harper, et al. v. Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied civil-procedure constructive-knowledge false-claims-act false-claims-act-31-usc-3729 federal-law mistake-of-law pleading-requirements scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-scienter Whether stating a claim of knowing avoidance of an obligation or conversion under the FCA, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(G) and (D), requires alleging that d…
18-315 Cochise Consultancy, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Billy Joe Hunt Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-11 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) 31-usc-3731 civil-action false-claims-act government-intervention official-of-the-united-states official-status qui-tam relator statute-of-limitations united-states united-states-intervention Whether a relator in a False Claims Act qui tam action may rely on the statute of limitations in 31 U.S.C. § 3731(b)(2) in a suit in which the United …
18-5710 Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution
18-186 Samuel David Silva-Ramirez v. Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-oversight civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-burden due-process false-claims-act legal-technicality materiality materiality-standard regulatory-compliance religious-freedom standing How can be properly submitted to the rigors of the dispositive effects of materiality standard of False Claims Act [FCA] violations; something hidden …