Phone Recovery Services v. Verizon Washington DC, Inc.

Beckwith, Associate Judge:

*312 Phone Recovery Services (PRS) appeals the dismissal of a lawsuit it brought on behalf of the District of Columbia against various telecommunications providers alleged to have fraudulently underpaid taxes that the District requires such providers to charge their customers in order to fund the city's 911 emergency services. At issue in this appeal, among other matters, is whether the fraudulent conduct PRS alleged was the sort of misconduct that had already been brought to light in news articles or other public disclosures-in which case, PRS's claim that the providers…