U.S. EX REL. PETRATOS v. GENENTECH INC.

No. 15-3805.

855 F.3d 481 (2017)

UNITED STATES of America, EX REL. Gerasimos PETRATOS, Gerasimos Petratos, ex rel. United States of America; State of California; State of Colorado; State of Connecticut; State of Delaware; State of Florida; State of Georgia; State of Hawaii; State of Illinois; State of Indiana; State of Louisiana; State of Maryland; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; State of Michigan; State of Minnesota; State of Montana; State of Nevada; State of New Hampshire; State of New Jersey; State of New Mexico; State of New York; State of North Carolina; State of Oklahoma; State of Rhode Island; State of Tennessee; State of Texas; Commonwealth of Virginia; District of Columbia, Appellants v. GENENTECH INC; Roche Group; Hoffman La Roche, Inc.; Roche Holdings, Ltd.; F Hoffman — La Roche, Ltd.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: May 1, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. DeBenedictis , Debenedictis & Debenedictis, LLC, 125 Kings Highway West, Haddonfield, NJ 08033, Adam Gutride , Seth Safier , Anthony Patek , Matthew T. McCrary , [Argued], Gutride Safier LLP, 100 Pine Street, Suite 1250, San Francisco, CA 94111, Counsel for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Lawrence S. Lustberg , Gibbons P.C., One Gateway Center, Newark, NJ 07102, Matthew J. O'Connor , Mark W. Mosier , [Argued], Matthew F. Dunn , David M. Zionts , Covington & Burling LLP, 850 10th Street, N.W., One City Center, Washington, DC 20001, Counsel for Defendants-Appellees.

Michael S. Raab , Weili J. Shaw , [Argued], U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20530, Counsel for United States of America as Amicus Curiae in support of neither party.

Before: HARDIMAN and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges, and ROSENTHAL, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

This appeal arising under the False Claims Act involves a multi-billion dollar cancer drug, Avastin, which was developed by Appellee Genentech. Relator Gerasimos Petratos, who was head of healthcare data analytics for Genentech, filed a qui tam action soon after leaving the company....

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