Opinion ID: 2681213
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Green Bay

Text: So too with the claims against Green Bay. The substance of Ahumada’s allegation against Green Bay is that it produced “complete and nearly complete” products for NCED in violation of NCED’s obligation to produce such products itself. See J.A. 257. According to the second amended complaint, Green Bay was aware that NCED’s governments contracts “required direct labor” by disabled employees, yet it sold NCED the finished products anyway. See id. at 256-57. As Ahumada forthrightly acknowledges, however, NCED did not place orders with Green Bay until “after [Ahumada was] terminated from employment by NCED.” Id. (emphasis added). To 18 support his allegation that Green Bay provided NCED with finished products, Ahumada cites publicly disclosed testimony from the Lopez trial. See id. at 257 (“Jose Rosales, Sales Representative for Green Bay, testified at the criminal trial of Ernie Lopez that commencing in February 2006, NCED ordered a million postal sleeves from Green Bay.”). Accordingly, we conclude that Ahumada is not an original source with respect to the claims against Green Bay.