California Court of Appeal

Summary judgments in favor of defendants are reversed where triable issues of fact exist, and the trial court abused its discretion by imposing a condition on granting plaintiff leave to file a second amended complaint alleging violation of the California False Claims Act with respect to 130 governmental entities.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2006
• Published 08/30/2006

Judges

• SPENCER, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Irell & Manella, Gregory R. Smith, S. Thomas Pollack, Mark Paluch, Los Angeles;  Phillips & Cohen, Eric R. Havian and Harry Litman, San Francisco, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Beck, DeCorso, Daly, Kreindler & Harris, Bryan D. Daly, Charles L. Kreindler, Barbara E. Taylor, Los Angeles;  Stanzler, Funderburk & Castellon and Ruben A. Castellon, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents Mueller Co. and Tyco International (US) Inc., Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava & MacCuish, David S. MacCuish, Kurt V. Osenbaugh and Andrew M. Gilford, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent Watts Industries, Inc.