Mendiondo v. Centinela Hospital Medical Center

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• holding 8 that notice pleading standard, as opposed to a heightened pleading standard, applies to FCA 9 retaliation claims
• recognizing plaintiff need only 26 satisfy the Rule 8(a) notice pleading standard” where the heightened pleading standard 27 of Rule 9(b) does not apply
• stating that Federal Rule of Civil 4 Procedure 8(a) requires the plaintiff to “give the defendant fair notice of what the . . . claim is 5 and the grounds upon which it rests” (quotation omitted)
• finding allegations of false claims where “[t]he complaint contains examples of practices at CHMC that Mendiondo and her co-plaintiffs suspected to be fraudulent attempts to inflate Medicare reimbursements”
• “Mendiondo engaged in protected activity if she reasonably believed that CHMC 24 was possibly committing fraud against the government, and she investigated the possible fraud”
• “[Plaintiff] must allege facts 23 similar to her retaliation claims: that she was terminated based on her complaints ….”

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