United States Ninth Circuit

In a Medicare fraud prosecution, the grant of Defendants' motion to suppress based on an insufficiently particular search warrant is affirmed in part, where there was no probable cause to seize certain categories of evidence; but reversed in part, where the warrant did not lack particularity for Fourth Amendment purposes.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/13/2008
• Decided 06/01/2009
• Published 06/01/2009

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, HAWKINS, and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert L. Ellman, Appellate Chief, Office of the United States Attorney, Las Vegas, NV, argued the cause for the plaintiff-appellant and filed the briefs;  Gregory A. Brower, United States Attorney, Las Vegas, NV, Steven W. Myhre, First Assistant United States Attorney, Las Vegas, NV, Michael Chu, Peter S. Levitt, Elizabeth A. Olson, Crane Pomerantz, and Roger W. Wenthe, Assistant United States Attorneys, Las Vegas, NV, were on the briefs.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lance Etcheverry, Attorney, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, argued the cause for the defendants-appellees;  C. Stanley Hunterton, Hunterton & Associates, Thomas J. Nolan, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, and Mark S. Hardiman, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., filed the brief.