No. 24-9

Michael Angelo v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-07-09
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: circuit-split false-claims-act government-consent government-veto post-filing-release post-filing-settlement qui-tam relator settlement-agreement
Key Terms:
Arbitration FirstAmendment Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2024-09-30
Question Presented (from Petition)

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 the Government did not have the opportunity to veto the agreement before its execution and where the Government received none of the consideration given pursuant to the release.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

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 the Government did not have the opportunity to veto the agreement before its execution and where the Government received none of the consideration given pursuant to the release

Docket Entries

2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-07-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-07-12
Waiver of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance of right to respond submitted.
2024-07-12
Waiver of right of respondent State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance to respond filed.
2024-07-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 8, 2024)

Attorneys

Michael Angelo
Shereef Hadi Akeel888 W. Big Beaver Road, Petitioner
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
Matthew P. AllenMiller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.C., Respondent