United States Eleventh Circuit

Dismmissal of qui tam action brought by relator physician against two other physicians and several health care providers under the False Claims Act, is affirmed as: 1) the complaint's allegations of fraud have not been made with the "particularity" required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b); and 2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in not granting the relator leave to amend his complaint to cure such deficiency.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/01/2006
• Published 12/01/2006

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, PRYOR and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Albert G. Lewis, III, Justice D. Smyth, III, Lewis & Mitchell, LLC, Tuscaloosa, AL, Frederick M. Morgan, Jr., Volkemia, Thomas, LPA, Cincinnati, OH, for Atkins., Kim M. Watteson, Reed Smith LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, for Mariner Health Central, Inc., Joseph Edward Bonee White, Taxpayers Against Fraud, Arlington, VA, Thomas M. Bondy, Douglas N. Letter, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Marcus Givhan, Alan Daniel Mathis, James F. Henry, Richard J. Brockman, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, LLP, Richard Lee Sharff, Jr., Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, J. Will Axon, Jr., Joseph S. Miller, Starnes & Atchison, LLP, Jackson R. Sharman, III, Jacob M. Tubbs, John M. Johnson, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Nathan C. Sheers, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP, Washington, DC, Robert B. McGinley, Jr., Andrew C. Clausen, Alford, Clausen & McDonald, LLC, Mobile, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.