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PRATHER v. AT&T, INC.

No. 13-17489.

847 F.3d 1097 (2017)

John C. PRATHER, on behalf of himself and the United States of America, and the several states of California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AT&T, INC.; Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Communications; Qwest Communications International, Inc.; Sprint Nextel Corp., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 6, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Balestriere (argued) and Jillian L. McNeil , Balestriere Fariello , New York, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Mark E. Haddad (argued), Collin Wedel (argued), and Douglas A. Axel , Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendant-Appellee AT&T.

Laura K. Lin , Jonathan H. Blavin , and Jerome C. Roth , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendant-Appellee Cellco Partnership.

Breena M. Roos , Kathleen M. O'Sullivan , and David F. Taylor , Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, Washington, for Defendants-Appellees Sprint Nextel Corp. and Qwest Communications International Inc.

Benjamin M. Stoll and Edward C. Barnidge , Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee Sprint Nextel Corp.

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges, and William K. Sessions III, District Judge.

OPINION

OVERVIEW

John C. Prather, a longtime state prosecutor, brought a qui tam action alleging that the largest telecommunications ("telecom") companies in the United States were fraudulently overcharging the federal government for surveillance services. The district court dismissed Prather...

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