United States of America et al v. Bluewave Healthcare Consultants Inc et al, No. 9:2014cv00230 - Document 424 (D.S.C. 2017)
Court Description: ORDER AND OPINION denying without prejudice 391 BlueWave Defendants' Motion to Strike the Government's allegedly late-named witnesses. Signed by Honorable Richard M Gergel on 4/19/2017.(sshe, )
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United States of America et al v. Bluewave Healthcare Consultants Inc et al Doc. 424 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTON DIVISION United States of America, et al., Plaintiffs, ex reI. Scarlett Lutz, et al., ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs-Relators, v. Berkeley Heartlab, Inc., et al. , Defendants. Civil Action No. 9: 14-cv-00230-RMG (Consolidated with 9:11-cv-1593-RMG and 9: 15-cv-2458-RMG) ORDER and OPINION ) ) ) ) ) ) ) The Government has filed a complaint in intervention against Defendants BlueWave Healthcare Consultants, Inc., Floyd Calhoun Dent, III, and Robert Bradford Johnson (the "Bluewave Defendants") alleging violations of the False Claims Act. (Dkt. No. 75.) This matter is before the Court on the BlueWave Defendants' motion to strike the Government's allegedly late-named witnesses. (Dkt. No. 391.) For the reasons below, the motion is denied without prejudice. On March 7 and March 9, 2017, the Government named an additional thirty-nine (39) witnesses. The BlueWave Defendants filed the instant motion to strike those witnesses on March 23,2017, arguing that the Government's allegedly late notice did not provide them adequate time to notice and conduct depositions of those witnesses before discovery was set to end on April 21,2017. (Dkt. No. 391-1 at 2.) This Court has since entered an amended scheduling order extending the discovery period to June 2, 2017. (Dkt. No. 418.) While the BlueWave defendants initially had forty-four (44) calendar days to notice and conduct depositions of the allegedly late- -1Dockets.Justia.com named witnesses, they now have 86 calendar days to do the same. Therefore, taking no 'position on whether the Government named these witnesses in a timely manner, the BlueWave Defendants' motion to strike (Dkt. No. 391) is denied without prejudice. AND IT IS SO ORDERED. United States District Court Judge April 2017 Charleston, South Carolina -2-
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