Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Lisitza v. Johnson & Johnson
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided February 25, 2011No. Civil Action 07-10288-RGS, 05-11518-RGSPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANT JOHNSON & JOHNSON’S MOTION TO DISMISS
STEARNS, District Judge.
In these qui tam actions, various plaintiffs 1 claim that defendants Johnson & Johnson (J & J), 2 Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Ortho), and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc., unlawfully induced Omnicare, the nation’s largest supplier of pharmaceutical drugs to nursing homes, to promote J & J’s branded drugs over less costly alternatives, in violation of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(FCA), 3 the Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b (AKS), and various state…
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