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Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 21-20463 · judgment March 2, 2022

Certiorari denied · October 3, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and counsel who has filed here before, and down for a business respondent.

Question presented

Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)’s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729, et seq. (“FCA”), and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act (“TMFPA”).

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Alfonso Kennard Jr.
Kennard Law P.C.

For respondent
James F. Segroves
Reed Smith LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 03 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 15 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
  3. Jun 07 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Walgreen Company to respond filed.
    Main Document
  4. May 31 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 5, 2022)
    PetitionAppendixCertificate of Word CountProof of Service