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U.S. EX EL. ATKINS v. McINTEER

No. 04-16167.

470 F.3d 1350 (2006)

UNITED STATES of America, ex el., Plaintiff, Patrick Bruce ATKINS, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles M. McINTEER, M.D., Marilyn Elizabeth Lachman, M.D., Yhap Psychiatric Services, Inc., Northport Health Services, Inc., Northport Health and Rehabilitation, L.L.C., et. al., Defendants-Appellees, Raintree Healthcare Corporation, Defendant

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 1, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert G. Lewis, III, Justice D. Smyth, III, Lewis & Mitchell, LLC, Tuscaloosa, AL, Frederick M. Morgan, Jr., Volkemia, Thomas, LPA, Cincinnati, OH, for Atkins.

Robert Marcus Givhan, Alan Daniel Mathis, James F. Henry, Richard J. Brockman, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, LLP, Richard Lee Sharff, Jr., Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, J. Will Axon, Jr., Joseph S. Miller, Starnes & Atchison, LLP, Jackson R. Sharman, III, Jacob M. Tubbs, John M. Johnson, Light-foot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Nathan C. Sheers, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP, Washington, DC, Robert B. McGinley, Jr., Andrew C. Clausen, Alford, Clausen & McDonald, LLC, Mobile, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Joseph Edward Bonee White, Taxpayers Against Fraud, Arlington, VA, Thomas M. Bondy, Douglas N. Letter, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae.

Before TJOFLAT, PRYOR and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

This is a qui tam action brought in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama by a physician, the relator, against two physicians and several health care providers under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729, et seq. The district court dismissed the relator's complaint, and he now appeals. The questions lying at the heart of this appeal are whether the complaint's allegations of fraud have been...

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