Labotest, Inc. v. Bonta

297 F.3d 892 LABOTEST, INC., a California corporation; Frank O. Brown, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Diana BONTA, RN; Director, Department of Health Services of the State of California; Kathleen Connell, Controller of the State of California; J. Alan Cates, Chief of the Medi-Cal Fraud Prevention Bureau of the State Department of Health Services, State of California, Defendants-Appellees. No. 01-56318. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 6, 2002. Filed July 19, 2002. Patric Hooper, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Patricia Nagler, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees. Kyungah Suk, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Robert J. Kelleher, Senior Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-00-05788-RJK. Before HALL, SILVERMAN, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges. OPINION SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge. 1 Plaintiffs Frank Brown, M.D., and Labotest (collectively "Labotest") sued the California Department of Health Services ("DHS") under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 following DHS's…