Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Booker v. Pfizer, Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided May 23, 2016No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 10-11166-DPWPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
DOUGLAS P. WOODLOCK, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
I. BACKGROUND
Relators Alex Booker and Edmund He-bron brought this qui tam action against Pfizer, Inc., on behalf of the federal government, 25 states, and the District of Columbia, alleging violations of the federal False Claims Act (“FCA”) and state analogues, chiefly.related to the promotion, of the prescription drug Geodon. The relators filed this action on July 13, 2010, and thereafter amended their complaint a number of times. The Fifth Amended Complaint is now the operative pleading, The United States has declined to…
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