United States Fourth Circuit

A suit under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. section 3729, was not actionable where plaintiff failed to show that a company knowingly made a false record or statement under 3729(a)(7), and failed to raise a triable issue on the specific intent standard of section 3729(a)(4).

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/03/2002
• Decided 09/27/2002
• Published 09/27/2002

Judges

• Before MOTZ and KING, Circuit Judges, and BEEZER, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  John Steven Simmons, Simmons & Griffin, L.L.C., Columbia, South Carolina;  Stuart F. Pierson, Troutman Sanders, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Jeffrey Stuart Patterson, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Henry Hammer, Hammer, Hammer, Carrigg & Potterfield, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Daniel J. Westbrook, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.