United States Ex Rel. Brooks v. Ormsby

WIENER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant, James Brooks, a non-lawyer proceeding pro se, filed this False Claims Act suit against Defendants-Appellees, in his capacity of relator for the United States. The United States declined to intervene as a “party,” leaving it as “a real party in interest.”

The district court dismissed this action without prejudice after giving Brooks, a federal prisoner, time to obtain representation by a duly licensed' ’and qualified attorney to prosecute this case. The,court did so because, even though Brooks could represent himself pro se, he could not do so for the…