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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2021

Bernard S. Vallejos  and
Courtney A. Rogers
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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 543 - 551
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 2003

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References

1 False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733 (2000).

2 342 F.3d 634 (6th Cir. 2003).

3 Id. at 641.

4 Id. at 645.

5 31 U.S.C. § 3730(c)(5) (2000).

6 Bledsoe, 342 F.3d at 647.

7 Id. at 639.

8 FED. R. CIV. P. 9(b).

9 Yuhasz v. Brush Wellman, Inc., 341 F.3d 559, 563 (6th Cir. 2003).

10 Bledsoe, 342 F.3d at 641.

11 Id.

12 Id. at 642.

13 Id.

14 Id.

15 Id.

16 Id. at 643 (citing Coffey v. Foamex L.P., 2 F.3d 157, 161-62 (6th Cir. 1993)).

17 Id. at 644.

18 Id.

19 Id. at 645.

20 Id. (citing 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(A) (2000)).

21 Id at 646 (citing U.S. ex rel. McKenzie v. Bellsouth Telecomms., Inc., 123 F.3d 935, 938- 41 (6th Cir. 1997)).

22 Id.

23 Id.

24 Section 3730(c)(5) provides that if the government elects not to intervene in the relator's qui tam action and pursues its claim through any alternative remedy, “the person initiating the [qui tam] action shall have the rights under [the alternative] proceeding.” 31 U.S.C. § 3730(c)(5) (2000).

25 Bledsoe, 342 F.3d at 647.

26 Id.

27 Id. at 648.

28 Id.

29 U.S. ex rel. Barajas v. U.S., 258 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001).

30 U.S. ex rel. LaCorte v. Wagner, 185 F.3d 188 (4th Cir. 1999).

31 Bledsoe, 342 F.3d at 648.

32 Id. at 649.

33 Id.

34 Id. at 650.

35 Id.

36 Id.

37 Id. at 651.

1 345 F.3d 866 (11th Cir. 2003).

2 Id. at 881.

3 Id. at 892.

4 Id. at 899.

5 Id. at 900.

6 42 U.S.C. §§ 1395y(b)(2)(A)-(B) (2000).

7 Id.

8 FED. R. CIV. P. 12(b)(6).

9 FED. R. CIV. P. 8.

10 Baxter Int’l, Inc., 345 F.3d at 882-83

11 Id. at 882.

12 Id. at 885-86.

13 Id.

14 Id.

15 Id. at 887.

16 Id. at 888, 893.

17 See id. at 893.

18 Id. at 893-94.

19 Id. at 895 (quoting 42 C.F.R. § 411.40(b) (2002)).

20 Id. at 896.

21 Id.

22 Id. at 899.

23 Id. at 900.

24 Id. at 900-01.

25 Id.

26 Id. at 892.

27 Mason v. Am. Tobacco Co., 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 20168, at *9 (2d Cir. 2003).

28 Id. at *9-10.

29 Baxter Int’l, Inc., 345 F.3d at 900.