United States Tenth Circuit

The False Claims Act's qui tam provisions do not violate Article II's Appointments Clause, or its Take Care Clause, at least where the Government intervenes; and the court did not abuse its discretion in denying plaintiff's motion for a new trial on damages, or in providing that the Government's dismissal of its common law fraud claim must be with prejudice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/04/2002
• Published 03/04/2002

Judges

• Before BRISCOE, HOLLOWAY and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Herbert L. Fenster, C. Stanley Dees, Mark R. Troy, McKenna & Cuneo, L.L.P., Denver, Colorado;  Maureen D. Mudron, American Hospital Association, Washington DC, filed a brief on behalf of the Amici Curiae, American Hospital Association, National Defense Industrial Association, Electronic Industries Alliance.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher J. Koenigs (Michael A. Williams and Michael B. Carroll, with him on the briefs) of Williams, Youle & Koenigs, P.C., Denver, CO, for the Appellants/Cross-Appellees Rockwell International Corp. and Boeing North American, Inc., Maria L. Vullo (Robert E. Montgomery, Jr., Matthew Chavez, Jeannie S. Kang, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY;  Hartley D. Alley, Wheat Ridge, CO, with her on the briefs) of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant James S. Stone., Peter R. Maier, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, (David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Douglas N. Letter, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC;  Thomas L. Strickland, United States Attorney, Denver, CO, with him on the briefs), for the Appellee/Cross-Appellant United States of America.