United States Ninth Circuit

In a qui tam action against Defendant-Hospital for fraudulently billing Medicare, the dismissal of the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is affirmed, where the facts underlying the alleged fraud were publicly disclosed in a prior lawsuit, and Plaintiffs were not original sources of the evidence of the alleged fraud.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/13/2009
• Decided 05/14/2009
• Published 05/14/2009

Judges

• Before: MYRON H. BRIGHT,STEPHEN REINHARDT, and A. WALLACE TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sarah S. Wright, San Rafael, CA, and John A. McGuinn, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas M. Brown, Kenneth P. White, George P. Schiavelli, Teresa Cespedes Ellis, and Amber Finch, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee Horizon Health Corporation., Gregory M. Luce, Washington, D.C., and Shawn Hanson and Tracy M. Strong, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Summit Medical Center., Robert R. Moore and Michael J. Betz, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Sukhdeep Grewal, M.D.