Retaliation is the primary concern among those who decide to blow the whistle on wrongdoing. It represents a significant impediment to obtaining the primary goals of whistleblowing: accountability and transparency …
Over the past year, the Centers for Disease Control and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), made several decisions that undermined the rights of whistleblowers. …
In March, the IRS and two whistleblowers reached a settlement to a long-pending dispute regarding the amount of money that an IRS whistleblower is entitled to receive for successfully reporting …
On November 28, 2017, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments (here) in Digital Realty Trust v. Sommers, a case that will determine whether employees who report suspected violations of …
During the past year, Wells Fargo has faced a number of scandals. In addition to the bank account scandal (here) in which millions of accounts were set up under customers’ …
As this Blog has noted in a previous post (here), to state a retaliation claim, both the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) and the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer …
