United States v. Change Lending, LLC

Case summary

United States v. Change Lending, LLC, No. 2:23-cv-00495 (C.D. Cal.), is a qui tam False Claims Act case in which Plaintiff Relator LLC filed a complaint on January 23, 2023 against Dan Adams, Change Lending, LLC, Commerce Home Mortgage LLC, Scott Simonich, The Capital Corporation and others. The CourtListener docket, dated March 18, 2026 and the only hosted record, shows the case assigned to Judge Stephen V. Wilson and reassigned to Judge Kenly Kiya Kato on November 22, 2023, a sealed order to show cause for lack of prosecution in April 2023, and repeated sealed stipulations extending the seal and the United States' election period. On May 28, 2025 the United States filed a notice declining to intervene and the case was unsealed; after an October 2025 order to show cause on service, Relator LLC filed a notice of voluntary dismissal, and on December 16, 2025 Judge Kato dismissed the action with prejudice as to Relator LLC and without prejudice as to the United States. The docket does not describe the conduct alleged. The hosted docket ends with the December 16, 2025 dismissal order.