United States Sixth Circuit

The district court correctly found that plaintiff failed to allege a qui tam action for purported False Claims Act violations with sufficient particularity as required by FRCP 9(b); a claim for wrongful termination in retaliation for allegations of wrongdoing was also properly dismissed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/01/2003
• Decided 08/20/2003
• Published 08/20/2003

Judges

• Before KENNEDY, GILMAN and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis E. Murray, Jr. (argued and briefed), Charles M. Murray (briefed), Barbara Quinn Smith (briefed), Murray & Murray, Sandusky, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dennis M. Kelly (briefed), Geoffrey J. Ritts (argued and briefed), Jones Day, Cleveland, OH, Denise M. Hasbrook, Roetzel & Andress, Toledo, OH, for Defendant-Appellee.