Hendow

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ex rel.  MARY HENDOW; JULIE ALBERTSON, No. 04-16247 Plaintiffs-Appellants, v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-00457-GEB

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Garland E. Burrell, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 15, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed September 5, 2006

Before: Cynthia Holcomb Hall, Barry G. Silverman, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Hall

10657 10660 UNITED STATES v. UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX

COUNSEL

Nancy G. Krop, Law Offices of Nancy G. Krop, Burlingame, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Timothy J. Hatch, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Ange- les, California, for the defendant-appellee.

Charles W. Scarborough, Department of Justice, Civil Divi- sion, Washington, DC, for the amicus. UNITED STATES v. UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX 10661

OPINION

HALL, Senior Circuit Judge:

The False Claims Act makes liable anyone who “know- ingly makes, uses, or…