United States Ex Rel. Fried v. West Independent School District

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• holding that the relator, who investigated and discovered the manner in which a particular school district implemented a widespread fraudulent scheme, was not an original source
• finding that information relator received pursuant to state open records act request was a “public disclosure”
• discussing a claim that was based almost entirely on public documents and relator’s investigation produced only minor facts about the fraud, “[e]very aspect” of which was already in the public domain
• investigation that consisted of conversations and email exchanges with employees about fraudulent scheme did not give relator direct knowledge of the fraud
• investigation that consisted of conversations and email exchanges with employees about fraudulent scheme did not give relator direct knowledge of the fraud
• “[The relator] merely received information about a program that had been publicly disclosed and hotly debated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).