government-intervention

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
24-705 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 After the Government intervenes in a False Claims Act ("FCA") case, is the whistleblower "relator" entitled to 15%-25% of the "proceeds of the action,…
23-7712 C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families Vermont 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP balancing-test bright-line-rule constitutional-protection due-process fundamental-right fundamental-rights government-intervention parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights In Vermont and a minority of other states, hearsay may be admitted and relied upon in a proceeding to permanently terminate a person's parental rights…
20-6003 Alvin Celius Andre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure entrapment government-intervention jacobson-v-united-states jury-instruction predisposition ready-willingness I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Entrapment Jury Instruction is in Conflict With Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540 (1992) and the Majority of t…
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 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that a three year statute of limitations applied when this Court has settled Circuit court conflicts by …
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…
18-1502 Brian Mark Burmaster v. Eli Lilly and Company Sixth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-marketing due-process free-speech government-action government-intervention government-overreach government-regulation medical-ethics pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-liability pharmaceutical-litigation sixth-amendment If a company's manufactured and marketed product, such as Eli Lilly's Zyprexa is cited by the US Government Quack (called a medical doctor?) as the mi…
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 The False Claims Act establishes two distinct statute-of-limitations periods. Under 31 U.S.C. § 3731(b)(1), a False Claims Act civil action "may not b…