On June 21, 2022, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in United States, ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., et al. The Supreme Court will review the Third Circuit’s October 2021 opinion in which the Third Circuit decided that the government is required to intervene before moving to dismiss a qui tam and that its motion must meet the standard of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a).
The relator filed the qui tam at issue in 2012. His complaint remained under seal for two years while the government investigated and eventually decided not to intervene. The relator continued to pursue the case. Following several years of litigation, in 2019, the government filed a motion to dismiss after, among other things, the District Court ordered the government to produce withheld documents in response to Executive Health Resources’ discovery requests. The District Court granted the government’s motion to dismiss, and the relator appealed to the Third Circuit.
The Third Circuit’s opinion addressed a circuit split as to whether the government must intervene to be able to move to dismiss a qui tam. See Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., 17 F.4th 376 (3d Cir. 2021). On one side of the circuit split are the D.C., Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, which interpreted 31 U.S.C. § 3730(c) as allowing the government to move for dismissal at any point in the litigation regardless of whether it has intervened. The Third Circuit sided with Sixth and Seventh...
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