United States Second Circuit

Under 31 USC 3729(a) of the False Claims Act, a claim is legally false only where a party certifies compliance with a statute or regulation as a condition to governmental payment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/23/2001
• Decided 12/20/2001
• Published 12/20/2001

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge., Before:  CARDAMONE, F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and SPATT, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Harold R. Burke, Greenwich, CT (Holland Kaufmann & Bartels, LLC, Greenwich, Connecticut, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant Patricia S. Mikes, M.D., Gideon A. Schor, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, NY, (Jeffrey Oestericher, Assistant United States Attorney, Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, of counsel), for Amicus Curiae United States of America., Jessie K. Liu, Washington, DC (Paul M. Smith, Robert M. Portman, Jenner & Block, LLC, Washington, DC, of counsel), for Amici Curiae American Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of New York, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Association of Neurological Surgeons-Congress of Neurological Surgeons, American College of Chest Physicians, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and Association of American Medical Colleges., Anthony L. DeWitt, Jefferson City, MO (Bartimus, Frickleton, Robertson & Obetz, PC, Jefferson City, MO, of counsel), filed a brief for the American Association for Respiratory Care as Amicus Curiae., Amy M. Wilken, Washington, DC (Dylan G. Trache, Taxpayers Against Fraud, The False Claims Act Legal Center, Washington, DC;  Bruce J. Terris, Terris, Pravlik & Millian, LLP, Washington, DC, of counsel), filed a brief for Taxpayers Against Fraud, The False Claims Act Legal Center as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barry B. Cepelewicz, White Plains, NY (David J. Meiselman, Arthur G. Larkin, Meiselman, Denlea, Packman & Eberz, P.C., White Plains, NY, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees Marc J. Straus, M.D., Jeffrey M. Ambinder, M.D. and Eliot L. Friedman, M.D.