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U.S. EX REL. JAMISON v. McKESSON CORP.

No. 10-60376.

649 F.3d 322 (2011)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Thomas F. JAMISON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. McKESSON CORPORATION; McKesson Medical-Surgical Medinet, Inc.; GGNSC Holdings, L.L.C.; Golden Gate Ancillary, L.L.C.; Beverly Enterprises, Inc.; Ceres Strategies, Incorporated; Ceres Strategies Medical Services, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 5, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Clifton Johnson, II (argued), Joe Bradley Pigott , Pigott, Reeves, Johnson, P.A., Jackson, MS, Albert Thomas Morris , U.S. Dept. of Justice, Antitrust Div., Washington, DC, Feleica Lockhart Wilson , Asst. U.S. Atty., Oxford, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jeffrey R. Chanin (argued), Benjamin W. Berkowitz , Daniel Erin Jackson , David J. Silbert , Keker & Van Nest, L.L.P., San Francisco, CA, Kenneth Harold Coghlan , Rayburn Coghlan Law Firm, P.L.L.C., Oxford, MS, Patric Hooper , Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, Robert Salcido (argued), Kelly M. Cleary , Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Robert Gilmon Anderson , Sr. Counsel, James B. Tucker , Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, P.L.L.C., Ridgeland, MS, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before SMITH and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

The public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act ("FCA") deprives the district court of jurisdiction whenever qui tam relators bring a suit based on publically available information. The district court held that it lacked jurisdiction. Because the relator's action included no allegations specific to the defendants, but merely repeated a general description of fraud easily available in several government documents, we affirm....

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