rule-9b
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… | |
| 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)'s heightened pleading standard requires False Claims Act plaintiffs who plead 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… |
| 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… | |
| 24-1188 | Over the Line, LLC, et al. v. Christine Thompson | Third Circuit | 2025-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure due-process fraud-allegation rule-9b summary-judgment third-circuit | 1. Can the Third Circuit United States Court of Appeals raise and rule on a non-jurisdictional or dispositive argument alleging fraud, that was expres… |
| 24-680 | Dennis G. Collins, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court rule-9b sua-sponte waiver | Whether a United States Court of Appeals can— sua sponte —affirm a district court's judgment on Rule 9(b) and other grounds that neither the parties n… | |
| 21-1578 | Quannah L. Harris v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure damages fraud fraud-claims fraudulent-intent materiality reliance rule-9b | 1. Did the Court misapprehended the law and facts in affirming the District Court's decision to dismiss the fraud claims based on the failure to state… | |
| 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 | This petition presents the same question as Johnson v. Bethany Hospice & Palliative Care LLC, No. 21-462, and United States ex rel. Owsley v. Fazzi As… |
| 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, such as re… |
| 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… |
| 21-462 | 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… |
| 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 | In this case THE PETITION for that "a United States court of appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of' "Complaint in this actio… |
| 19-457 | Xia Bi, et al. v. Terry McAuliffe, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-08 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-pleading misrepresentation pleading reliance reliance-element rule-9b standing | 1. Whether Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a particularity requirement for pleading the reliance element of common law fraud… | |
| 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… |
| 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 | Two questions are presented: 1. Did the Complaint give Raytheon sufficient notice of the particular misconduct alleged to constitute fraud, so that i… |
| 18-911 | Intermountain Health Care, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Gerald Polukoff, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Granted | 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 | 1. 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… |
| 18-289 | Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law when it read the heightened pleading requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) for not… |