Sweetwater Union Sch. Dist. v. Gilbane Bldg. Co.

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INTRODUCTION

*24Plaintiff Sweetwater Union High School District (Sweetwater) filed this action against defendants Gilbane Building Company (Gilbane), The Seville Group, Inc. (SGI), and Gilbane/SGI, a joint venture (the Joint Venture), seeking to void management contracts with all three entities, and to require that they disgorge all sums that Sweetwater paid them under the contracts, pursuant to Government Code section 1090(Section 1090).1 Sweetwater alleges that certain *25representatives of the defendant entities engaged in a "pay to play" scheme with several Sweetwater officials that involved…