United States Fifth Circuit

Dismissal of a reverse false claim under the False Claims Act is affirmed based on failure to plead with particularity under FRCP 9(b), and denial of a motion to dismiss without prejudice under FRCP 41(a)(2) was not an abuse of discretion. (Revised opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2003
• Published 08/29/2003

Judges

• CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before WIENER, CLEMENT, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Todd Hoover, Hoover Law Firm, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Edward Himmelfarb, Douglas N. Letter, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div.-App. Staff, Washington, DC, for U.S., Amicus Curiae., David Lawrence Bateman, Law Office of David L. Bateman, Baton Rouge, LA, for Bain, Amicus Curiae., Luis A. Leitzelar, Murphy J. Foster, III, Cade Aaron Evans, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, LA, for Georgia Gulf Corp., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Ben Foster, Kent B. Ryan, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, LA, John A. Gray, The Dow Chemical Co., Plaquemine, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.