(July 16, 2024, 2:11 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Without providing explanation, a California federal judge on July 15 granted parties’ joint stipulation of dismissal in a relator’s qui tam suit against a California special laboratory, alleging violations of the federal False Claims Act and similar California statutory provisions for the lab’s role in inducing physicians and offering remuneration to them to refer government-insured patients to the lab....