Opinion
No. 97-20948.
November 15, 1999. Revised December 15, 1999.
Jim M. Perdue, Sr., Jim Mac Perdue, Jr. (argued), Houston, TX, for Riley.
Douglas N. Letter (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., App. Staff, Washington, DC, for Intervenor.
L. Boyd Smith, Jr., Michael Warren Mengis, Kathryn Lynn Hays, Gary W. Eiland, Vinson Elkins, Houston, TX, for St. Luke's Hosp., Branislav Radovancevic and Texas Heart Institute.
Solace Kirkland Southwick, Raina Spielman Newsome, Jeffrey B. McClure, Mayor, Day, Caldwell Keeton, Houston, TX, for Frazier and Surgical Associates of Texas, PA.
Toni B. Hunter (argued), Austin, TX, for The University of Texas Houston Health Science Center.
William Joseph Boyce (argued), Warren S. Huang, Fulbright Jaworski, Houston, TX, Martin H. Redish, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL, for Baylor College of Medicine.
Brian Patrick Johnson, Hanen, Alexander, Johnson Spalding, Houston, TX, for Massin.
Brian Stuart Koukoutchos, Bedford, MA, Lisa R. Hovelson, Alan Marc Shusterman, Taxpayers Against Fraud, The False Claims Act Legal Center, Washington, DC, for Taxpayers Against Fraud, The False Claims Act Legal Center, Amicus Curiae.
Cathy M. Ventrell-Monsees, American Ass'n of Retired Persons, Washington, DC, for American Ass'n of Retired Persons, Nat. Health Law Program, Project on Government Oversight and Accountability Project, Amicus Curiae.
Dorothy Marie Siemon, Bruce B. Vignery, Michael Robert Schuster, American Ass'n of Retired Persons, Washington, DC, for American Ass'n of Retired Persons, Amicus Curiae.
James B. Helmer, Jr., Frederick Mason Morgan, Jr., Helmer, Lugbill, Martins Morgan, Cincinnati, OH, for Nat. Employment Lawyers Ass'n, Amicus Curiae.
Paul D. Kamenar, Daniel J. Popeo, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, Evan Slavitt, Lisa Tucker McElroy, Gadsby Hannah, Boston, MA, for Washington Legal Foundation, Amicus Curiae.
Donald Baxter Craven, Washington, DC, Alan I. Horowitz, Clarence T. Kipps, Miller Chevalier Chartered, Robin S. Conrad, David Thomas Deal, Washington, DC, for Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and American Petroleum Institute, Amicus Curiae.
Stephen P. Murphy, Reed, Smith, Shaw McClay, Washington, DC, for American Health Care Ass'n (AHCA), Amicus Curiae.
Ray M. Aragon, C. Stanley Dees, McKenna Cuneo, Washington, DC, Herbert L. Fenster, McKenna Cuneo, Denver, CO, Barbara Jean Bacon, McKenna Cuneo, Los Angeles, CA, Gregory Thomas Jaeger, McKenna Cuneo, Arlington, CA, for Aerospace Industries Ass'n of America, American Hosp. Ass'n, Electronic Industries Alliance, Nat. Defense Industrial Ass'n and Professional Services Council, Amicus Curiae.
Jack R. Bierig, Sidley Austin, Chicago, IL, Andrew E. Weis, Sidley Austin, Washington, DC, for American Medical Ass'n and The Ass'n of American Medical Colleges, Amicus Curiae.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
(Opinion November 15, 1999, 5 Cir., ___ F.3d ___)
The internal policies of this court provide for the pre-circulation, to all non-recused active judges, of a proposed panel opinion that will create a circuit split. Those policies also allow any active judge to request, before the opinion is issued, a poll on whether the case should be reheard en banc after the opinion is issued.
A member of the court in regular active service having requested a poll pursuant to that policy, and a majority of the judges in regular active service having voted in favor of granting rehearing en banc,
IT IS ORDERED that this cause shall be reheard by the court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs.