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Product Liability

Mar. 9, 2010

Case Is Dropped by Feds, But States, Cities Jump In

Despite a decision by the U.S. government not to join their lawsuit, plaintiffs' counsel are charging ahead with a multi-million dollar whistleblower case.

By Ciaran McEvoy

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Four states and more than 40 California cities and water agencies are pressing ahead with a multi-million dollar whistleblower case accusing a major pipe manufacturer of falsifying test results to hide the substandard quality of pipes it sold to state and local governments.

The case, filed in federal court in Los Angeles in 2006 and unsealed by U.S. District Judge George...

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