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U.S. EX REL. HARTPENCE v. KINETIC CONCEPTS, INC.

Nos. 12-55396, 12-56117.

792 F.3d 1121 (2015)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Steven J. HARTPENCE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KINETIC CONCEPTS, INC.; KCI-USA, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. United States ex rel. Geraldine Godecke, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kinetic Concepts, Inc.; KCI-USA, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 7, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Irving Labaton (argued) and Oren Rosenthal , Isaacs Friedberg & Labaton, Los Angeles, CA; Michael A. Hirst , Hirst Law Group, P.C., Davis, CA; Patrick J. O'Connell , Andrea Dawn Rose , and Jan Soifer , O'Connell & Soifer LLP, Austin, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Gregory M. Luce (argued), Maya P. Florence , and Colin V. Ram , Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, D.C.; Matthew E. Sloan , Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Chief Judge and STEPHEN REINHARDT, ALEX KOZINSKI, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, RONALD M. GOULD, MARSHA S. BERZON, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, CARLOS T. BEA, SANDRA S. IKUTA and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

If a whistleblower informs the government that it has been bilked by a provider of goods and services, and that scheme is unmasked to the public, under what conditions can that same whistleblower recover part of what the guilty provider is forced to reimburse the government? We hold today that there are two...

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