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Ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by the City and County of San Francisco ex rel. Roger Schneider against U.S. Telepacific Corp., dba TPx Communications (“TPx”) for $3,660,000; the lawsuit was filed on January 29, 2020, in San Francisco Superior Court, Case No. CGC-20-582552; entitled City and County of San Francisco ex rel. Roger Schneider v. AT&T Corporation, et al.; the lawsuit involves allegations that TPx and other telecommunications companies knowingly under-collected and under-remitted amounts due under the Access Line Tax Ordinance in violation of the California False Claims Act; other material terms of the settlement are that TPx will collect and remit access line taxes in a certain manner in the future absent a material change in the law.
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