Legal Opinion
United States v. Purdue Pharma L.P.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 24, 2010No. 09-1202, 09-1244PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge AGEE wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge TRAXLER and Judge BLAKE joined.
OPINION
AGEE, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiff-relator, Mark Radcliffe (“Radcliffe”), filed a qui tam suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia alleging that his former employer, Purdue Pharma, L.P. (“Purdue”), defrauded the government by marketing its pain-relief drug, OxyContin, as a cheaper alternative to the drug it replaced, MS Contin, which was also manufactured by Purdue. Radcliffe alleged that Purdue, through its sales agents and marketing…
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