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CHRISTINE M. LADD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee. |
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Michigan at Detroit.
No. 05-73046—Paul D. Borman, District Judge.
Argued: October 30, 2008
Decided and Filed: January 14, 2009
Before: KENNEDY, SUTTON, and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff Christine Ladd, an African-American woman claiming sex- and race-based harassment and retaliatory discharge against her former employer Grand Trunk Western Railroad (“Grand Trunk”), appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Grand Trunk. Ladd argues that she presented a genuine issue as to all of her claims. For the reasons that follow, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ex rel., Plaintiff-Appellee, JACQUELINE KAY POTEET, Relator-Appellant, v. MEDTRONIC, INC. et al., Defendants. |
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Western District of Tennessee at Memphis.
No. 03-02979—Bernice B. Donald, District Judge.
Argued: June 5, 2008
Decided and Filed: January 14, 2009
Before: DAUGHTREY, CLAY, and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.
CLAY, Circuit Judge. In this qui tam action, Relator, Jacqueline Kay Poteet (“Poteet”), appeals the district court’s dismissal of her complaint, brought pursuant to the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq. (2000), as jurisdictionally barred by the statute’s public disclosure provision, 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4)(A), and first-to-file provision, 31 U.S.C. § 3730(a)(5). In addition to challenging the district court’s application of these jurisdictional bars, Poteet also claims that the district court abused its discretion when it failed to grant her motion for discovery and when it failed to conduct an evidentiary hearing before dismissing her complaint. For the reasons that follow, we AFFIRM the district court’s dismissal of Poteet’s action.