Jack Burns

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Prevailed in multi-million dollar challenge to agency rule that delayed the effective date of a Medicare payment adjustment intended to compensate the nation's leading cancer centers for the increased costs they incur in treating patients.
  Prevailed in multi-million dollar challenge to agency decision that lowered Medicare disproportionate share hospital adjustment by improperly excluding patients receiving Medicaid benefits under demonstration project from calculation of adjustment.
  Favorably settled multi-million dollar lawsuit challenging agency decision that improperly reduced Medicare payments to hospital due to technical problems with state eligibility database.
  Obtained summary judgment dismissing state
  federal antitrust claims alleging unfair competition practices by defendants in the pharmaceutical industry.
  Favorably settled putative Fair
  Accurate Credit Transactions Act class action after challenging the proposed class representative's ability to represent the proposed class.
  Obtained dismissal of a qui tam False Claims Act case alleging that loan servicer defrauded the Federal National Mortgage Association
  the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
  Obtained summary judgment dismissing a qui tam False Claims Act case alleging that for-profit educational institution defrauded the Department of Education.
  Obtained favorable 'ability to pay' settlement of False Claims Act case against provider of psychotherapy services after extensive negotiations with the Department of Justice.
  Assisted judges during clerkships with cases alleging violations of the False Claims Act, including cases involving genetic testing
  ship building.
  Favorably resolved several investigations by state
  federal authorities regarding alleged False Claims Act violations.
  In a felony case carrying a m
  atory minimum 10 year sentence, obtained plea bargain that freed the client from custody with a sentence of time served after getting government's evidence against client excluded from use at trial.