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Biotronik, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Sam Jones Company, LLC
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 23-55361 · judgment September 10, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
The public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act precludes qui tam suits whose allegations are substantially the same as allegations or transactions that already have been publicly disclosed. The issue presented is whether a qui tam suit is barred when public disclosures provide enough information for the government to investigate the alleged fraud without the relator’s assistance.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Steven Douglas Gordon
Holland & Knight
For respondent
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Case
Subject area
Economic Activity (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
25A866
Order
Order list, May 18, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- May 18 2026Petition DENIED.
- Apr 22 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/14/2026.
- Mar 04 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 6, 2026)
- Feb 02 2026Application (25A866) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until March 4, 2026.
- Jan 23 2026Application (25A866) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from February 2, 2026 to March 4, 2026, submitted to Justice Kagan.