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By C. Ryan Barber | September 6, 2017
A federal labor appeals panel has revived a whistleblower's claims against the defense contractor Exelis Systems Corp., ruling that the employee can allege retaliation even though he raised concerns about unlawful conduct outside the United States and was fired while overseas.
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By Max Mitchell | September 1, 2017
Does Pennsylvania's whistleblower law allow plaintiffs to recover noneconomic damages, such as humiliation and emotional distress?
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By Marcia Coyle | August 25, 2017
Thirteen legal scholars, in a letter to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, say U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's reassignment of 50 senior executives is illegal if the moves are part of an attrition strategy or to punish views inconsistent with the Trump administration's policies.
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By C. Ryan Barber | August 24, 2017
Wells Fargo, represented by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, mounts an appeal to challenge the wrongful-termination claims of a former branch manager in California who alleged she was fired after blowing the whistle on bankers opening new accounts without proper authorization. OSHA ordered the bank to reinstate the whistleblower, and pay $577,500 in back pay and damages.
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By Charles Toutant | August 17, 2017
Honeywell International faces a suit from a former vice president who said she was hired to increase diversity at the executive level but contends she was hired as window dressing.
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By Max Mitchell | August 16, 2017
Management company U.S. Facilities was responsible for maintaining the elevators that crashed in an incident at the Criminal Justice Center last year, but a recently-filed whistleblower case claims it ignored warnings about their safety.
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By Adam Pollock and Randall Fox | August 16, 2017
Adam Pollock and Randall Fox write that in a little-noticed provision at the end of New York's False Claims Act, the New York legislature provided for a lower pleading hurdle when asserting violations of New York's FCA in state court. Accordingly, whistleblowers should strongly consider filing separate federal and state qui tam actions (or seeking to remand improperly removed cases) in order to benefit from the New York FCA pleading standard at the dismissal stage.
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By Scott Flaherty | August 14, 2017
Grant & Eisenhofer has sued a former whistleblower client and two other law firms, alleging the whistleblower and her current lawyers conspired to strip Grant & Eisenhofer of its fee on a $280 million settlement.
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By Michael Battle, Roscoe Howard and Patrick Miles | August 10, 2017
The early months of the Trump administration have brought about the resignations of the two most prominent lawyers behind the U.S. Department of Justice's…
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By C. Ryan Barber | August 7, 2017
Two weeks after being ordered to reinstate a branch manager fired for raising concerns about improper sales practices, Wells Fargo & Co. has…
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