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NEW YORK v. AMGEN INC.

Nos. 10-1629, 10-1630, 10-1633, 10-1634, 10-1635, 10-1636, 10-1954, 10-1955.

652 F.3d 103 (2011)

State of NEW YORK; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; State of California; State of Illinois; State of Indiana; State of New Mexico ex rel. Kassie Westmoreland; State of Georgia ex rel. Kassie Westmoreland, Plaintiffs, Appellants, United States ex rel. Kassie Westmoreland; State of Delaware; State of Florida; State of Hawaii; State of Louisiana; State of Michigan; State of Nevada; State of New Hampshire; State of Tennessee; State of Texas; Commonwealth of Virginia; District of Columbia, Plaintiffs, v. AMGEN INC.; ASD Healthcare; International Nephrology Network, renamed Integrated Nephrology Network, d/b/a Dialysis Purchasing Alliance, Inc., Defendants, Appellees, AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group; AmerisourceBergen Corporation; Immunex Corporation; Medscape, LLC; WebMD Health Corp.; Wyeth; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 22, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven C. Wu, Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General, Richard Dearing, Deputy Solicitor General, Carolyn T. Ellis, Special Assistant Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, Margot Schoenborn, Special Assistant Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, of New York; Eliseo Z. Sisneros, Deputy Attorney General, Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Nicholas P. Paul, Deputy Attorney General, of California; Joseph B. Chervin, Assistant Attorney General, Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, of Illinois; Jessica L. Harlan, Deputy Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, Greg Zoeller, Attorney General, of Indiana; Ann B. Ackil, Assistant Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Division, and Martha Coakley, Attorney General, of Massachusetts; were on brief, for State of New York, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of California, State of Illinois, and State of Indiana, appellants.

Derek T. Ho, with whom Silvija A. Strikis,   Joseph S. Hall,   Andrew S. Oldham, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC, Suzanne E. Durrell,   Robert M. Thomas, Jr., and Royston H. Delaney were on brief, for Kassie Westmoreland, appellant.

Charles W. Scarborough, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, with whom Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Carmen Ortiz, United States Attorney, and Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, were on brief, for the United States, amicus curiae.

Michele Odorizzi, with whom Kenneth S. Geller,   Andrew Tauber, Mayer Brown LLP, Brien T. O'Connor,   Kirsten V. Mayer,   William Dunn, Ropes & Gray LLP, Daniel A. Curto,   Michael D. Kendall, and McDermott Will & Emery LLP were on brief, for Amgen Inc., appellee.

James M. Becker, with whom Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney PC, Eric W. Sitarchuk, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Peter Ball,   Ryan M. Cunningham, and Sally & Fitch were on brief, for International Nephrology Network and ASD Healthcare, appellees.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

LYNCH, Chief Judge.

Relator Kassie Westmoreland and the plaintiff state intervenors in this qui tam action appeal from a Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of their pendent state False Claims Act (FCA) causes of action against Amgen, Inc. (Amgen), International Nephrology Network (INN), and ASD Healthcare (ASD). The district court exercised jurisdiction over the action, which also alleged violations of the federal FCA, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., pursuant to 31 U.S...

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