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 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. 19 A jury trial for Phase 1 of this case is set to begin on July 30, 2024. See Final Pretrial 20 | Order at 16, ECF No. 396. The deadline for dispositive motions in the court’s scheduling order 21 | passed two years ago. See Order (Mar. 15, 2022), ECF No. 237; Rule 16 Scheduling Order, ECF 22 | 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 24 | now divided themselves into two groups, Wasatch Property Management defendants and Owner 25 | and Non-Owner…