Unreported / Non-Citable
Disposition notice
On October 23, 2026, Judge Stanley Blumenfeld, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered final judgment in No. 2:24-cv-05214-SB-RAO. For reasons stated in a separate order dismissing the Second Amended Complaint entered that date, the court dismissed Relators David Phillips and Ben Chaib’s claims with prejudice. The court retained jurisdiction to oversee compliance with the Rule 11 sanctions it had imposed, citing Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp., 496 U.S. 384, 395–96 (1990), for the principle that jurisdiction to impose Rule 11 sanctions is ancillary and survives dismissal. The one-page document expressly states that it is a final judgment; the separate dismissal order containing the underlying reasons is not included in the supplied source.