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 Owner and Non-Owner defendants move for judgment on the pleadings on plaintiffs’ 18 claim under the False Claims Act and their state causes of action. The court denies the motion. A jury trial for Phase 1 of this case is set to begin on July 30, 2024. See Final Pretrial Order at 16, ECF No. 396. The deadline for dispositive motions in the court’s scheduling order passed two years ago. See Order (Mar. 15, 2022), ECF No. 237; Rule 16 Scheduling Order, ECF No. 143. Though this case has been proceeding for more than nine years, defendants assert they 23 recognized a conflict of interest among themselves for the first time in December 2023 and have now divided themselves into two groups, Wasatch Property Management defendants and Owner and Non-Owner…