Terry

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 | Denika Terry et al., No. 2:15-cv-00799-KJM-DB 12 Plaintiffs, ORDER 13 v. Wasatch Advantage Group, LLC, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiffs are tenants who receive rental assistance through the federally subsidized 18 | Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. They claim defendant lessors improperly charged 19 | plaintiffs, as well as the class members they represent, for additional services and required them 20 | to purchase renter’s insurance. Plaintiffs argue these services and the insurance requirement 21 | constitute impermissible rent under the Section 8 contracts and applicable regulations, and 22 | defendants therefore violated the Section 8 contracts and submitted false claims for 23 | reimbursement under the federal program. 24 This matter is before the court on plaintiffs’ and relators’ motion for partial summary 25 | judgment, Pls.’ Mot. for Summ. J. (MSJ), ECF No. 242-1, and defendants’ cross…