A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held Friday that a whistleblower can bring a federal False Claims Act lawsuit against an AT&T subsidiary over reimbursements from an industry-funded program to provide internet and phone service to schools and libraries.

Although the Federal Communications Commission's $4.5 billion E-Rate program is funded mostly by telecommunications companies, the reimbursement requests still qualify as "claims" under the FCA because the government paid into the program during the years at issue in the whistleblower's lawsuit, Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court.

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