James M. HAGOOD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SONOMA COUNTY WATER AGENCY, Defendant-Appellee

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1996-04-15

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KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge, concurring; I concur in the result, and in the majority’s reason, that what Hagood revealed was not fraud. We err, I think, in deciding that Hagood was an original source who voluntarily provided the information. He was a lawyer charged with the duty of drafting a contract and other documents for the transactions at issue. If he thought the transaction was f…

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