KAPLAN UNIVERSITY,etal.,
Defendants.
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O R D ER D ENY IN G REN EW ED R UL E 60 M O TIO N
toVacateSummaryJudgmentandtoReopenCase(DE-511j.RelatorGillespie(Gillespie)seeks
reconsideration ofthe Court'sOrderGranting Defendants'M otion forSum m ary Judgm entand
thatOrder,theCourtgrantedsummaryjudgmenttoDefendantson Gillespie'sclaimsarising
underthe False Claim sA ct. Specifically,the Courtfound thatGillespie had failed to establish
theappeal,theEleventhCircuittookjudicialnoticeofseveraldocumentslthatwerenot
consideredbythisCourtwhenitnlledonthesummaryjudgmentmotions.Aftermakingthese
docum entspartofthe record on appeal,the Eleventh Circuitaffinned the Sum m aly Judgm ent
EleventhCircuittakingjudicialnoticeofthesedocuments,whichGillespiemaintainsclearly
l'
T'he docum entsare filed at17E-442-3,442-4,442-5,and 442-6. A copy ofthe Eleventh
CircuitOrdertakingjudicialnoticeisfiledatDE-442-1.
establish scienter. Gillespie'sM otion m ustbedenied based onthe 1aw ofthecase doctrine and
becausethedocumentsdo notestablish scienterforthenecessary tim eperiod.
Underthe 1aw ofthe casedoctrine,both districtcourtsand appellatecourtsarebound by
priorappellate decisionsin the sam e case. AlphameJ Inc.v.B.Braun M edical,Inc.,367F.3d
1280,1285-86(11thCir.2004).TheEleventh Circuithasinstructed:
liunderthe Slaw ofthecase'doctrine,the findingsoffactand conclusionsoflaw by an
appellatecourtare generally binding in allsubsequentproceedingsin the same casein the
trialcourtoron alaterappeal.''Heathcoatv. Potts,905F.
2d367,370(11thCir.1990)
(internalquotationmarksandeitationomitted).Furthermore,thelaw-of-the-case
doctrinebarsrelitigation ofissuesthatweredecided eitherexplicitly orby necessary
implication.SeeSchiavov.Schiavo,403F.3d 1289,1291(11thCir.2005)C-f'
he
glaw-of-the-casejdoctrineoperatestoprecludecourtsfrom revisitingissuesthatwere
decided explicitly orby necessary implication in apriorappeal.'
');Kla)v.AllDefendants,
explicitly,aswellasbynecessaryimplication,inanearlierproceeding.'')(internal
quotationmarksandcitationomitted).Thedodrine'scentralpuposesincludebringing
an end to litigation,protecting againsttheagitation ofsettled issues,andassuringthat
low ercourtsobey appellate orders. See United States v.W illiam s,728 F.2d 1402,1406
(11thCir.1984).
inreachingitsdecisionon summaryjudgment.However,inthiscase,becausetheEleventh
Circuittookjudicialnoticeoftheevidenceatissuerzthatevidencebecamepartoftherecord
before the Eleventh Circuit. Thus, Gillespiehasnotpresented any new and substantially
zGillespiepointsoutthattheEleventh Circuittookjudicialnoticeofboththeexistence
and the contentofthese docum ents. See 17E-442 at 10.
JudgmentandtoReopenCasegDE-51IJisDENIED.
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D ox E and O RDERED in M iam i Florida,this S & dayofJune2016.
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PATRICIA A.SEI
A llcounselofrecord