qui-tam
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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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 … | |
| 25-728 | 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… | |
| 25-347 | 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… | |
| 24-1179 | 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 claims under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A), is a "related action" to a previously filed "pending action… | |
| 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 | 1. Is a qui tam relator barred by the "public disclosure" of its own prior complaint? No other circuit court has so held. 2. Does the public-disclosu… |
| 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 | The public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., forecloses a qui tam FCA action or claim if "substantially the same… |
| 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 | 1. Does the District Court have the jurisdiction to dismiss an action filed under the Informer's Act (also known as the False Claims Act of 1863) 12 S… |
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 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 | 1. Whether the FCA's statutory civil penalty must be limited to a single-digit multiplier of the actual damages under the Eighth Amendment, in a non-i… |
| 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 | 1. The False Claims Act allows qui tam relators to sue those who violate the Act, but its "public-disclosure bar" requires courts to dismiss qui tam l… |
| 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 | A relator may bring a False Claims Act ("FCA") action under 31 U.S.C. § 3729( a)(1)(G) when a qui tam defendant "knowingly makes, uses, or causes to b… |
| 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… |
| 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 | 1. Whether a relator can avoid the public disclosure bar by "stitching together" public disclosures. 2. Whether inter partes review (IPR)—which this … |
| 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 | This case shows my dozen relator council's, conspired with defense Councils, and my Judge with assistance of E. Pa. District Court Employees, and DOJ … |
| 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 when the evidence for and against dismissal is sha… |
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6296 | Charles Andre Bailey v. Dennis Bley | Oregon | 2023-12-18 | Denied | IFP | ada-violation civil-rights death-certificate fraud government-violation health-insurance medical-fraud medical-records physician-patient-relationship qui-tam | WHY DID DR. BLEY SIGN MY FATHER'S DEATH CERTIFICATE IF HE CLAIMS HES NOT HIS DOCTOR? WHY IS DR. BLEY's NAME ON MY FATHER'S HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY? A… |
| 22-7039 | Michael T. Brooks v. Agate Resources, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | article-3-courts civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process informa-pauperis judicial-discretion qui-tam rehabilitation-act standing whistleblower whistleblower-protection | 1; Can a federal judge open a qui tam case that they dismissed three years ago, turning it into a criminal case against the relator? Order a disabled … |
| 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… | |
| 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) when neither the common law nor the text of the statute support such a… |
| 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… |
| 21-796 | 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 | The federal False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. § 3730, includes an interrelated series of provisions intended to incentivize, through monetary awards… |
| 21-6291 | Zoltan Barati v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | IFP | case-dismissal circuit-split constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-oversight qui-tam relator sequoia-dismissal | Whether the 11th Circuit can eliminate due process requirements of Qui Tam - relator progressed - case dismissals while other circuits rely on Sequoia… |
| 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 | 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)(1) protects an "employee" against retaliation for trying to stop a violation of the False Claims Act. The question presented is wh… |
| 21-5264 | In Re Melvin Dinkins | 2021-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-1651 28-usc-3730 administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause | What are the "usages and principles" of law, in this case 28 USC 3730 (b)(1) - when legislature proclaims "A person may bring a civil action for the p… | |
| 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 | This petition for a writ of certiorari raises a matter of exceptional importance — whether or not a false claims act qui tam claim on behalf of the pu… |
| 20-566 | United States, ex rel. Diana Juan v. Stephen Hauser, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response Waived | authority defendant-knowledge failure-to-act medicare medicare-fraud overbilling plausible-claim qui-tam remediation-authority systemic-automated systemic-overbilling | Must a Qui Tam Relator in a systemic automated Medicare overbilling case specify more than each Defendant's knowledge that the systemic automated syst… |
| 20-293 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, et al. v. New Mexico, ex rel. Hector Balderas, Attorney General | New Mexico | 2020-09-08 | Denied | civil-procedure federal-judgment federalism government-intervention public-policy qui-tam res-judicata standing state-court | 1. Whether the federal government or a state government, as the real party in interest in a qui tam action brought in its name and litigated to judgme… | |
| 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 | Under False Claims Act, may a relator proceed pro se, or must he hire an attorney? |
| 19-1312 | Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware | Third Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's "Unfettered Discretion" standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' "Rational Basis Test… |
| 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 judge's intentionally error to conceal economic espionage subject 18 U.S.C. §§ 1832, 2382 questions harms country and citizen's presents t… |
| 19-1230 | Bobby Knight v. Chenega Security, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-18 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law dismissal due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigation qui-tam qui-tam-action standard-of-review standing whistleblower-protection | I. DID THE COURT BELOW FAIL TO USE AN APPROPRIATE STANDARD OF REVIEW WHEN GRANTING ALL THE DISMISSAL MOTIONS WITHOUT RECOGNIZING THE PETITIONER 'S… |
| 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 | First Question Can an illegal decision be upheld that granted a nonparty ' motion to dismiss after it refused to intervene in a False Claims Act lawsu… |
| 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 | The False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, permits qui tam relators to sue on the United States' behalf to recover damages for frauds against… | |
| 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 | In a qui tam action brought under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §3729 et seq., must the relator be an insider with personal knowledge of the contrac… |
| 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 | 1. Paramedics and EMTs at a county hospital were ordered by management to perform unnecessary services and then enter incorrect time into the hospital… |
| 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 … |
| 18-911 | 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… |
| 18-315 | 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 … |