Court Opinion

ID: 71924
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2010-04-26 07:24:20+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:15:35.163600
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM:
  
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  Plaintiff-Appellant William D. Ellard (“Ellard”) appeals the district court’s dis
   
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  missal of his False Claims Act (“FCA”) suit against Defendants-Appellees Med-tronic, Inc., Austin Heart, P.A., Daughters of Charity Health Services of Austin, and Heart Hospital IV, LP. After reciting El-lard’s numerous failures to comply with the FCA’s statutory filing requirements, the district court dismissed Ellard’s suit with prejudice, concluding that he had “incurably frustrated” the statutory goals of the FCA by, inter alia, failing to file under seal and failing to serve the government with a copy of the complaint before notifying the defendants. For essentially the same reasons advanced by the district court, we affirm.
 

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   Pursuant to 5th Cir R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.