( November 6, 2023, 2:19 PM EST) -- CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s order granting summary judgment to a hospital and denying as moot a motion to disqualify opposing counsel in a surgeon’s suit alleging violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) related to the hospital’s purported retaliation against him, finding that while the district court should have first ruled on the motion to disqualify before ruling on summary judgment, “remand is not required” because the surgeon failed to file the motion to disqualify on time....