CAFASSO v. GENERAL DYNAMICS C4 SYSTEMS, INC.

Nos. 09-16181, 09-16607, 09-17710.

637 F.3d 1047 (2011)

Mary Angela CAFASSO, UNITED STATES ex rel., Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellant, v. GENERAL DYNAMICS C4 SYSTEMS, INC., Defendant-counter-claimant-Appellee. Mary Angela Cafasso, United States ex rel., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc., Defendant-Appellee. Mary Angela Cafasso, United States, ex rel., Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellant, v. General Dynamics Corporation, Defendant-Appellee, General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc., Defendant-counter-claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 24, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Bothwell (argued), Julie Keeton Bracker , and Richard J. Harris , Roswell, GA; Thomas Rogers , Phoenix, AZ; for plaintiff-appellant Mary Angela Cafasso.

Mark G. Kisicki (argued), Lawrence Allen Katz , Peter S. Kozinets , and Thomas Michael Stanek , Phoenix, AZ; J. William Koegel , Washington, DC; for defendant-appellee General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.

Before: RONALD M. GOULD and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges, and MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR., District Judge.


OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

In this False Claims Act ("FCA") appeal, relator Mary Cafasso challenges orders of the district court dismissing her qui tam complaint, rejecting her proposed amended pleading, granting summary judgment on remaining claims, and awarding attorneys' fees.1 We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

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Cafasso alleges that her former employer General Dynamics...

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