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U.S. EX REL. MAY v. PURDUE PHARMA L.P.

No. 14-2299.

811 F.3d 636 (2016)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Steven MAY and Angela Radcliffe, Plaintiff-Appellant, and State of California; State of Georgia; State of Illinois; State of New York; State of Tennessee, Plaintiffs, v. PURDUE PHARMA L.P., a limited partnership, and; Purdue Pharma, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: January 29, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Mark Tucker Hurt , The Law Offices of Mark T. Hurt, Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellant. Daniel Stephen Volchok , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Paul W. Roop, II , Roop Law Office, LC, Beckley, West Virginia, for Appellant. Howard M. Shapiro , Christopher E. Babbitt , Charles C. Speth , Ariel Hopkins , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge DIAZ wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge TRAXLER and Judge AGEE joined.

Steven May and Angela Radcliffe (the "Relators") appeal the district court's dismissal of their qui tam action under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq. They contend that the district court incorrectly concluded that (1) the pre-2010 version of the FCA's "public disclosure bar," 31 U.S.C. §...

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