United States Second Circuit

Plaintiff's claim to recover under the False Claims Act (FCA) is rejected where the "Tax Bar" excludes his claims for recovery under the FCA because the falsity of the claims at issue depended entirely upon proving violations of the Internal Revenue Code.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/03/2004
• Published 08/03/2004

Judges

• KRAVITZ, District Judge., Before:  FEINBERG and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and KRAVITZ, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William B. Pollard, III, Kornstein, Veisz, Wexler & Pollard, LLP, New York, New York (John R. Phillips, Erika Kelton, Phillips & Cohen, LLP, Washington, D.C., Marc Marmaro, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP, Los Angeles, California, on the brief) for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John K. Carroll, (James D. Miller, Christopher Joralemon on the brief) Clifford Chance U.S. LLP, New York, New York, for Appellees.