U.S. EX REL. JONES v. BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSP.

No. 10-2301.

678 F.3d 72 (2012)

UNITED STATES, ex rel. Kenneth James JONES, Plaintiff, Appellant, Priscilla Pitt Jones and Kenneth James Jones, Plaintiffs, v. BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, et al., Defendants, Appellees, Harvard Medical School, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 7, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremy L. Friedman , with whom William D. Hughes , Michael D. Kohn , Hughes & Nunn LLP, Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, LLP, and Law Office of Jeremy L. Friedman , were on brief, for appellant.

Alan D. Rose , with whom Lisa A. Tenerowicz , and Rose, Chinitz & Rose, were on brief, for appellees.

Before LIPEZ, RIPPLE, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to address claims filed pursuant to the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (the "FCA"), alleging that the defendants submitted an application to the National Institute on Aging ("NIA") for research on Alzheimer's disease ("AD") which relied on falsified data. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. We vacate that ruling.

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In 2006, Dr. Kenneth Jones ("Jones" or "Relator") filed...

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