Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Booker v. Pfizer, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 30, 2017No. 16-1805PPublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
On August 31, 2009, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc. settled various claims that it had violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq„ with the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”). As part of that settlement, Pfizer entered into a Corporate Integrity Agreement (“CIA”) with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”).
Less than a year after that settlement, relators Alex Booker and Edmund He-bron, two former Pfizer sales representatives, brought this qui tam action against Pfizer in federal district court, alleging it was on behalf of…
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