United States Ex Rel. Gagne v. City of Worcester

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• holding that Rule 9(b) may be satisfied “where, although some questions remain unanswered, the complaint as a whole is sufficiently particular to pass muster under the FCA”
• noting that, while presentment is an element of § 3729(a)(1), presentment is not an element of §§ 3729(a)(2)-(3)
• affirming dismissal of an (a)(2) claim under Rule 9(b) where “[r]elators fail to connect the only falsity or fraud for which they provide any detail”
• affirming denial of leave to file- third amended complaint because of “repeated failure to cure the deficiencies in [the] pleadings”
• finding that particularity standard was not met where relators failed to “connect the only falsity or fraud for which they provide any detail . . . to an effort to get a false claim paid or approved by the government”
• afirrming the denial of leave to, amend where the plaintiffs second amended complaint was insufficient

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