Schmuckley

Case 2:12-cv-01699-KJM-JDP Document 398 Filed 03/30/21 Page 1 of

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and the No. 2:12-cv-1699-KJM-EFB STATE OF CALIFORNIA, et al., ex rel. LOYD F. SCHMUCKLEY, JR., Plaintiffs, ORDER v. RITE AID CORPORATION, Defendant.

In this qui tam action, the court previously granted in part plaintiff-intervenor State of

California’s (“California”) motion for sanctions (“first sanctions motion”) and ordered defendant

Rite Aid Corporation (“Rite Aid”) to reimburse California the reasonable expenses it incurred in

bringing its motion. ECF No. 261, 273. California was directed to submit billing records

establishing its reasonable expenses, and Rite Aid was granted an opportunity to file a response to

California’s submission. ECF No. 273.

California timely complied with that order. But before Rite Aid’s deadline for submitting

its response,…