Terry

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DENIKA TERRY, etal., No. 2:15-cv-0799 KIM DB Plaintiffs, ORDER V. WASATCH ADVANTAGE GROUP, LLC, et al., Defendants. Plaintiffs ask this court for leave to amend their complaint and to alter the class cut-off 18 date. For the reasons below, the court grants the motion. IT. BACKGROUND Plaintiffs, on behalf of a class of individuals, are tenants who receive rental assistance through the federally subsidized Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. They claim defendant lessors improperly charged plaintiffs for additional services and required them to 23 purchase renter’s insurance. Plaintiffs argue these services and the insurance requirement 24 constitute impermissible rent under the Section 8 contracts and applicable regulations, and 25 defendants therefore violated the Section 8 contracts and submitted false claims for 26 reimbursement under the federal program. …