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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. 06, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• wrongful termination,  Racial discrimination,  Civil Rights Act of 1964

Three Black former employees at a bridge construction company have appealed the verdict in their discrimination suit to the Eleventh Circuit, claiming their employer paid them less that white coworkers, Read More

• posted: Sep. 29, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• JP Morgan

Shaquala Williams, a former compliance attorney at JP Morgan, has sued the company for retaliation after she raised misconduct concerns. The bank filed a motion for summary judgement, alleging Williams 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

• posted: Aug. 11, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination,  Covid-19
• employer retaliation,  whistleblower retaliation,  covid-19,  workplace safety

A judge awarded a former U.S. Forest Service firefighter $115,000 in back pay, siding with the firefighter in his whistleblower retaliation claim against the Forest Service. The firefighter, Pedro Rios, claimed Read More

• posted: Aug. 09, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination,  Covid-19
• employer retaliation,  wrongful termination lawsuit,  covid-19

The former chief of the Sacramento Fire Department, Gary Loesch, recently filed a $10 million wrongful termination suit against the city, claiming he was deliberately exposed to COVID-19 as a Read More

• posted: Aug. 04, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• resignation letter

Sg. David “Kawika” Hallums of the Honolulu Police Department said he was removed almost immediately after being sworn in as the vice president of the State of Hawaii Organization of Read More

• posted: Jul. 26, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• sexual orientation discrimination

Brian Ball, a former trainer for the Chicago White Sox who worked for the team for 20 years, filed a lawsuit against the team and its general manager Rick Hahn, Read More

• posted: Jun. 28, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• wrongful termination lawsuit,  whistleblower claim,  retaliation claim

A former firefighter from Montebello, California recently filed a federal whistleblower wrongful termination suit worth more than $5 million. That firefighter, Vernon Creswell, already won a $2.6 million payout from the Read More

• posted: Apr. 26, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• Louisiana State Trooper,  Wrongful Termination Suit

Former Louisiana State Trooper Carl Cavalier formally appealed his termination from the department, a day after the State Police fired him in what he says was an act of wrongful Read More

• posted: Mar. 17, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• corruption trial,  Hawaii Department of Public Safety,  internal affair investigation

A former deputy sheriff recently filed a lawsuit against Hawaii’s Department of Public Safety, claiming he was a victim of wrongful termination. The whistleblower, Tommy Cayetano, claimed former DPS Director Nolan Read More

• posted: Mar. 10, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• employer retaliation,  sexual abuse,  cover up

San Jose State University (SJSU) recently agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging a coverup of sexual abuse allegations. The claimant was a whistleblower who targeted the suit against the university Read More

• posted: Feb. 24, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• sexual harassment,  termination was retaliation,  racketeering

The attorneys for former associate athletic director Sharon Lewis of Louisiana State University (LSU) claim her firing was a result of retaliation. Lewis had previously filed a $50 million federal racketeering Read More

• posted: Feb. 15, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• Statute of Limitations

On January 10, 2022, the Sixth Circuit ruled the statute of limitations period for False Claims Act whistleblower retaliation cases begins when the whistleblower is first notified of the adverse Read More

• posted: Feb. 10, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• unsafe working conditons

The United States Department of Labor will investigate allegations that Apple retaliated against an employee who blew the whistle on company wrongdoing. The whistleblower is Ashley Gjovik, a former senior engineering Read More

• posted: Jan. 13, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• employer retaliation,  wrongful termination,  emotional distress damages

Judith Zimmerman, a former professor at the University of Utah, won $760,000 in damages in a jury trial after she sued the university claiming whistleblower retaliation. The case was another example Read More