U.S. EX REL. CHANDLER v. HEKTOEN INSTITUTE

No. 97 C 514.

35 F.Supp.2d 1078 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Janet CHANDLER, Ph.D., Plaintiff, v. THE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH; Cook County Hospital; and Cook County, Illinois, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

February 9, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Belcaster, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Chicago, IL, Ronald L. Futterman, Michael I. Behn, Futterman & Howard, Chartered, Chicago, IL, Bradley Scott Weiss, Law Office of Bradley Scott, Washington, DC, Michele Marion Fox, United States Atty's Office, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff.

Timothy F. Haley, Noah A. Finkel, Steve A. Miller, Seyfarth, shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Thomas M. Burnham, Donna M. Lach, Sanjay Thakor Tailor, State's Attorney of Cook County, Patricia M. Moser, City of Chicago, Dept. of Law, Chicago, IL, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GETTLEMAN, District Judge.

Relator/plaintiff Janet Chandler ("plaintiff") has brought a three-count complaint against defendants the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research ("Hektoen"), Cook County Hospital ("CCH"), and Cook County (together, "the County Defendants"). Plaintiff alleges: (1) presentation of false claims in violation of the False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq. (Count I); (2) retaliation...

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