Case Name: UNITED STATES EX REL. Jonathan BLOEDOW, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST INC, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-06-20
Citations: 654 F. App'x 335
Docket Number: No. 14-35017
Parties: UNITED STATES EX REL. Jonathan BLOEDOW, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST INC, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before: PAEZ, BYBEE, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 654
Pages: 335–336

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES EX REL. Jonathan BLOEDOW, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST INC, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 14-35017
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted June 7, 2016 Seattle, Washington
FILED June 20, 2016
Steven H. Aden, Catherine Glenn Foster, Attorney, Alliance Defending Freedom, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Laura Einstein, Planned Parenthood of Western Washington, Seattle, WA, Julia Livingston, Matthew Umhofer, Attorneys, Spertus, Landes & Umhofer, LLP] Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before: PAEZ, BYBEE, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Jonathan Bloedow appeals the district court's order dismissing his qui tam action for lack of.subject matter jurisdiction. We affirm.
The district court did not err in concluding that the False Claims Act's- ("FCA") public disclosure bar applied to Bloedow's suit. The "FCA sets up a two-part test" for subject matter jurisdiction. United States v. Alcan Elec. & Eng'g, Inc., 197 F.3d 1014, 1018 (9th Cir. 1999). First, we agree with the district court that, taken together, the Gonzalez v. Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles complaint, No. CV 05-8818, 2008 WL 2841883 (C.D. Cal. May 1, 2008), and the 2011 report by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services "constituted a 'public disclosure' of the 'allegations or transactions' upon which [Bloedow's] -FCA suit is based." Id. (quoting 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(A)), That neither document explicitly references Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest ("PPGN") is not determinative of the public disclosure bar. See id at 1018-19. Second, we agree that Bloedow does not qualify as an "original source" under 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(B). United States ex rel. Devlin v. California, 84 F.3d 358, 360 (9th Cir. 1996). His knowledge of PPGN's allegedly fraudulent behavior was neither "direct" nor "independent." Id. at 361.- Thus, the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over Bloedow's case.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except, as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
. The district court correctly applied the pre-2010 version of the FCA. See Hughes Aircraft Co. v. United States ex rel. Schumer, 520 U.S. 939, 946, 117 S.Ct. 1871, 138 L.Ed.2d 135 (1997).