U.S. EX REL. HANKS v. U.S.

No. 18-3376 August Term 2019.

961 F.3d 131 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America EX REL. Don HANKS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Real Party in Interest, Intervenor-Appellee, Florida Cancer Specialists, Gulfcoast Oncology Associates, Integrated Community Oncology Network, LLC, United States Oncology Specialty, LP, Hematology and Oncology Associates of the Treasure Coast, Mid-Florida Hematology and Oncology Centers, Pasco Hernando Oncology Associates, P.A., Cancer Institute of Florida, P.A., Coastal Oncology PL, Stuart Oncology Associates, P.A., Ayub Sokoi, Matzkowitz, and Sennabaum, David Dresdner, M.D., Georgia Cancer Specialists, Northwest Georgia Oncology Centers, PC, Augusta Oncology Associates, Central Georgia Cancer Care, Southeast Georgia Hematology Oncology Associates, P.C., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 3, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ROB HENNIG , Hennig Ruiz & Singh, P.C., Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant United States of America ex rel. Don Hanks.

JULIE CIAMPORCERO AVETTA , ( Bruce R. Ellisen , on the brief) for Richard E. Zuckerman, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Richard P. Donaghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, of counsel, for Appellee United States of America.

LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS , Foley & Lardner LLP, Boston, MA, ( Rachel Kramer , Michael P. Matthews , on the brief) for Defendants-Appellees Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC, Ayub, Sokoi, Matzkowitz and Sennabaum, M.D.s, P.A. d/b/a New Hope Cancer Center, Coastal Oncology, P.L., J. Paonessa, M.D., P.A. (Gulfcoast Oncology Associates), and Pasco Hernando Oncology Associates, P.A.

JOSEPH R. PALMORE , Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, DC, ( Samuel B. Goldstein , Joshua Hill, Jr. , Lena H. Hughes , on the brief) for Defendant-Appellee U.S. Oncology Specialty, LP.

JEREMY P. BURNETTE , Akerman LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees Central Georgia Cancer Care, P.C., Georgia Cancer Specialists I, P.C., and Southeast Georgia Hematology Oncology Associates, P.C.

JAMES W. BOSWELL, III , King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA, ( Michael E. Paulhus , Jennifer S. Lewin , on the brief) for Defendant-Appellee Northwest Georgia Oncology Centers, P.C.

Before: JACOBS, SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges, and FURMAN, District Judge.


Relator Don Hanks brings this qui tam action asserting claims on behalf of the United States under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq. (the "FCA"), and on behalf of certain states under state law analogs. Appeal is taken from the dismissal of the Fifth Amended...

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