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STATE EX REL. GRAYSON v. PACIFIC BELL TEL.

No. C050296.

48 Cal.Rptr.3d 427 (2006)

142 Cal.App.4th 741

STATE of California ex rel. Alan GRAYSON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PACIFIC BELL TELEPHONE CO. et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeal of California, Third District.

As Modified September 12, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Taugher, Sacramento; Bronster Crabtree & Hoshibata and Margery S. Bronster, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Pillsbury Winthrop, Christopher R. Ball, San Francisco; Sidley Austin, Mark E. Haddad, Steven A. Ellis, Robert A. Holland, Nitin Reddy, San Francisco; Keker & Van Nest, Robert A. Van Nest, Steven A. Hirsch, R. James Slaughter, San Francisco; Reed Smith, Michele Floyd, and Raymond Cardozo, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents Pacific Bell Telephone Co., AT & T Corporation, AT & T Wireless Services, Inc., and Sprint Communications Company and its affiliates Sprint Co., Ltd. Partnership and Sprint Int'l. Communications Corp.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton and Steven B. Sacks, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents Nextel Communications, Inc., Nextel of California, Inc., Nextel Operations, Inc., and Nextel Retail Stores, Inc.

RAYE, J.

Qui tam relator Alan Grayson seeks a bounty under the False Claims Act (FCA; Gov.Code, § 12650 et seq.) for compelling telecommunication companies to escheat to the state balances on prepaid telephone cards by sidestepping the procedures provided by the Unclaimed Property Law (UPL; Code Civ. Proc., § 1500 et seq.) and circumventing the State Controller, the notice provisions, and the absence of any determination of liability under the law...

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