Terry

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Denika Terry, et al., No. 2:15-cv-00799-KJM-DB Plaintiffs, ORDER v. Wasatch Advantage Group, LLC, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 Plaintiffs are tenants who receive rental assistance through the federally subsidized 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 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. The court granted plaintiffs’ prior motion for partial summary judgment on the breach of contract and Unfair Competition Law (UCL) claims and 25 denied defendants’ cross-motion…