CITY OF BURBANK v. MUELLER CO. Part I
Where qui tam plaintiff in action under False Claims Act sought to name 130 new governmental entities in complaint, trial court abused its discretion in conditioning plaintiff's leave to amend upon each of the newly-named governmental entities responding to defendants' detailed discovery demands, and then revoking leave to amend with respect to those newly named governmental entities that did not respond. Trial court erred in granting summary judgment to defendants as to Sec. 12651(a)(8) claim that they were knowing beneficiaries of a false claim submitted by their subsidiary, where sample testing and memoranda by one parent company could have supported conclusion that it was aware its subsidiary selling was substandard pipes to municipalities.
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