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Home » US Law » 2022 Nevada Revised Statutes » TITLE 31—PUBLIC FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION » Chapter 357 - Submission of False Claims to State or Local Government » CIVIL ACTIONS » NRS 357.100 – Action based upon certain public disclosures may only be brought by Attorney General, designee or original source of information; exceptions.

Unless the Attorney General objects, a court shall dismiss an action or a claim made pursuant to this chapter that is substantially based on the same allegations or transactions that have been disclosed publicly:

1. In a criminal, civil or administrative hearing to which the State, a political subdivision, or an agent of the State or a political subdivision is a party;

2. In an investigation, report, hearing or audit conducted by or at the request of a house of the Legislature, an auditor or the governing body of a political subdivision; or

3. By the news media,

unless the action or claim is brought by the Attorney General, a designee of the Attorney General pursuant to NRS 357.070 or an original source of the information.

(Added to NRS by 1999, 828; A 2011, 375; 2013, 1046; 2015, 913)