• posted: May 19, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Uncategorized

Welcome to your Martindale Hubbell Website. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! Read More

• posted: May 09, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• tax fraud

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. Victor Hugo   We know who the first responders are. When a student opened fire at a Nevada middle school on Monday morning, Read More

• posted: May 06, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• academic fraud,  NCAA compliance

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson Mike McQueary was living his dream. A Pennsylvania State College kid who quarterbacked the Penn Read More

• posted: May 02, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• railroad commission

Frederick Wright recently sued the Texas Railroad Commission for terminating his employment in violation of state whistleblower laws. If the suit is not settled, it could attract considerable attention in Read More

• posted: Apr. 29, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• federal laws,  whistleblower laws

By now, you have probably heard about the False Claims Act, the Dodd-Frank Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Depending on your field, you may be aware of the Read More

• posted: Apr. 25, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• cheating on tests,  Whistleblower protections for teachers

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau The New York Times recently published a story detailing 14 cases of New York City Read More

• posted: Apr. 22, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• Texas Whistleblower Act

The Supreme Court of Texas recently dismissed another whistleblower case with a narrow reading of Texas Whistleblower Act (TWA) requirements. Although the TWA offers significant protections to a tipster reporting Read More

• posted: Apr. 18, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• Catholic Whistleblowers,  sexual abuse

Jennifer Haselberger calls the Catholic Church her home. Two relatives went into religious life. Haselberger was a canon lawyer for the archdiocese until she could no longer tolerate her warnings Read More

• posted: Apr. 15, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Ag-gag Law,  agricultural animal abuse

On February 8, 2013, Amy Meyer went to the Dale Smith Meatpacking Company in Draper City, Utah to see where her meat comes from. She peeked through the barbed wire Read More

• posted: Apr. 11, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• ACLU,  ATF,  Operation Fast and Furious

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. Benjamin Disraeli  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) special Agent John Dodson Read More

• posted: Apr. 08, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• citigroup buyout

Five years have passed since Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy. Richard M. Bowen III, a former Citigroup executive who blew the whistle on their bad business practices, provided 1000 pages of documents Read More

• posted: Apr. 04, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• False Claims Act,  employer retaliation

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. Harry S. Truman  The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in Read More

• posted: Apr. 01, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• SEC whistleblower program,  whistleblower awards

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced August 20, 2013 that it awarded more than $25,000 in total to three whistleblowers. The SEC reports that this payment was the first Read More

• posted: Mar. 28, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• confidential data,  SOX complaint

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. Franz Kafka  The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL, in Vannoy v. Celanese Corporation, recently ruled in favor of a whistleblower who Read More

• posted: Mar. 25, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Dodd-Frank Act,  employer retaliation

From the recent reports of retaliatory acts against whistleblowers, some wonder if the protections under the Dodd-Frank Act proscribing retribution against tipsters are known to companies and government offices. Regardless Read More

• posted: Mar. 21, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• bed bugs,  retirement home

A federal court ordered S.E.M. Villa II Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operates a retirement home in Milford, Ohio, to pay a former manager $20,000 in back pay. The former Read More