U.S. EX REL. WILKINS v. NORTH AMERICAN CONSTRUCT. CORP.

No. CIV.A. H-95-5614.

101 F.Supp.2d 500 (2000)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. Patrick WILKINS, Plaintiffs, v. NORTH AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, CH&A Corporation, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division.

June 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hays Jenkins, Jr., Office of U.S. Attorney, Houston, TX, Michael F. Hertz, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Ben Franklin Station, Elizabeth A. Rinaldo, U.S. Dept of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, Robert N. Hinton, Robert N. Hinton and Associates, Allan G. Levine, Attorney at Law, Michael John Hinton, Sr., Hinton Sussman et al., Houston, for United States of America, Patrick Wilkins, plaintiffs.

Ronald Hornberger, Plunkett & Gibson, Lewin Plunkett, Plunkett and Gibson, San Antonio, TX, Alan J. Sobol, Attorney at Law, David M. Bizar, O'Connell Flaherty et al., Hartford, CT, David Patrick Long, Patton Boggs LLP, Dallas, Mary Elizabeth Bosco, Patton Boggs, Washington, DC, David J. Farber, Patton Boggs, Washington, DC, David J. Beck, Beck Redden and Secrest, Houston, James A. Bensfield, Miller & Chevalier, Peter Hutt, Miller & Chevalier, Gregory Brown, Miller & Chevalier, Heidi A. Sorensen, Miller & Chevalier, Washington, DC, for North American Construction Corporation, CH&A Corporation, GAB Business Services Inc., EVI Cherrington Environmental Inc., Energy Ventures Inc., Weatherford International Inc., defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND AMENDED ORDER

ROSENTHAL, District Judge.

In 1995, relator Patrick Wilkins, a former chief operating officer of a subcontractor to a drilling contract with the Army Corps of Engineers, filed this suit under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3730. Wilkins filed suit under seal so that the United States government could investigate his allegations...

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