United States Tenth Circuit

The False Claims Act does not require the Government to intervene prior to moving to dismiss a qui tam action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/10/2005
• Published 02/10/2005

Judges

• O'BRIEN, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges and EAGAN , District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Wilbert Benjamin Markovits of Markovits and Greiwe Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati, OH, (Phyllis E. Brown of Copeland & Brown Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati, OH;  Louise Roselle of Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co., L.P.A., of Cincinnati, OH;  and James J. Christoph of McCormick & Christoph, P.C., Boulder, CO, with him on the briefs) for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Litigation Counsel, (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and John W. Suthers, United States Attorney, with him on the brief) Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellee., Gail D. Zirkelbach and Michael D. Schag of McKenna Long & Aldridge, L.L.P., Denver, CO;  Gregory Kellam Scott of Kaiser-Hill Company, L.L.C., Golden, CO;  Thomas J. Heiden of Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., Grand Rapids, MI, on the briefs for Defendant-Appellee Kaiser-Hill Company, LLC., Richard J. Webber of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.;  Dennis W. Brown and Stacy A. Carpenter of Baldwin & Brown, P.C., Denver, CO, on the brief for Defendant-Appellee Wackenhut Services Limited Liability Company., John T. Boese and Michael J. Anstett of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, Washington, D.C.;   and F. Gregory McKenna and Alan Epstein of Hall & Evans, L.L.C., Denver, CO, on the brief for Defendant-Appellee EG & G Rocky Flats, Inc.