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• posted: Dec. 15, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• employer retaliation,  whistleblower laws,  wrongful termination,  Sarbanes-Oxley violation

New Jersey’s Department of Community Affairs has been accused of firing their chief financial officer, after he informed the agency’s leaders about waste and conflicts of interest in the state’s Read More

• posted: Dec. 01, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• white collar crime

White collar crime costs the United States about $300 billion dollars per year—and most Americans don’t even realize it. Because white collar crime is typically nonviolent, it doesn’t get the Read More

• posted: Nov. 29, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• layoffs,  mass layoff

Rosen Hotels and Resorts, a hospitality system based in Orland, has recently settled class action claims brought under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act for $2.3 million. Hotel Read More

• posted: Nov. 24, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• False Claims Act,  employer retaliation,  red flags

A Cincinnati surgeon has filed a lawsuit against the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, claiming he was retaliated against when he raised concerns about a colleague’s fitness. Dr. Charles Mehlman Read More

• posted: Nov. 22, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation
• climate change,  environmental crimes

It’s no secret that climate change is happening at an increasingly rapid pace. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, sea levels are rising and once-normal weather events are more destructive Read More

• posted: Nov. 17, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Sexual Harassment
• denied promotion,  student athletes

Former Santa Fe High School assistant principal Kelly Rinaldi was awarded nearly $800,000 in a whistleblower lawsuit against the school district. Rinaldi alerted colleagues of allegations of sexual misconduct against Read More

• posted: Nov. 10, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Biometric Privacy,  Employee Privacy,  Facial Recognition

A former Illinois employee from Lurie Children’s Hospital recently filed a biometric privacy claim against ID.me Inc., the hospital’s identity verification vendor. The suit claimed it stored her and other Read More

• posted: Oct. 25, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• fraudulent prescriptions

Two pharmacy owners were recently convicted of trying to defraud pharmacy benefit managers of tens of thousands of prescriptions, which were submitted to both private and federally-funded healthcare programs. The Read More

• posted: Sep. 22, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Daily Harvest,  saving lives

Being a whistleblower can be an overwhelming process, according to Daily Harvest whistleblower Abby Silverman. Silverman received a tainted package of “French lentil and leek crumbles,” which sent her to Read More

• posted: Sep. 20, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Tesla,  WARN Act

A putative class action suit against automaker Tesla alleges they laid off thousands of workers without issuing federally-required notice. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires employers to provide Read More

• posted: Sep. 15, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Cartwright Act,  illegal tactics,  price fixing scheme

Uber and Lyft drivers have alleged the two companies are embroiled in a price-fixing scheme, causing drivers to earn less money for their work than they might have otherwise. Three Read More

• posted: Sep. 06, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• high profile whistleblowers

Technology was a historically male-dominated industry—but over the past decade, high profile, big tech whistleblowers have been disproportionately female. When compared to the percentage of women in the tech workforce, Read More

• posted: Aug. 25, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• NRC,  Nuclear Regulatory Commission,  nuclear safety issues,  Tennessee Valley Authority

Three former members of the Tennessee Valley Authority were removed from their positions after they alerted federal officials about safety concerns and violations. Now, they are suing the utility company Read More

• posted: Aug. 23, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• construction fraud,  GSA,  subcontracting fraud

Hensel Phelps, a general contractor and construction company, recently settled allegations of subcontracting fraud for $2.8 million The misconduct was revealed by Fox Unlimited Enterprises, which acted as a whistleblower in Read More

• posted: Aug. 18, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• whistleblower awards,  SEC,  Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently proposed some changes to its whistleblower program that could potentially affect compensation received by whistleblowers through the program. Under the current rules, whistleblowers Read More

• posted: Aug. 16, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• school administrators

The former administrator of Boston Public Schools who was in charge of English learning claims she was pushed to resign from her position because she was threatened by the district Read More