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LOS ANGELES (KNX) — A COVID-19 testing firm has requested that a Los Angeles County judge allow them to conduct some discovery of Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s mobile devices and to depose him on a limited basis for purposes of considering whether to sue him for defamation. Fulgent Genetics Inc. and its subsidiary, Fulgent Therapeutics LLC, alleged in a petition filed Friday in L.A. County Superior Court that Villanueva falsely claimed that the FBI warned him against using Fulgent’s services because of “concerning information” that the firm might share DNA data of county employees with China. Villanueva was accused of making...
