• posted: Jan. 28, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• employer retaliation,  whistleblower complaint

Trisa Crutcher, an employee of a Fort Worth Police Crime Laboratory, recently filed a whistleblower complaint alleging a variety of violations at the lab that could result in negative impacts Read More

• posted: Nov. 26, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• employer retaliation,  covid,  covid-19,  workplace safety

Katrina Bryant, a former worker at a construction site for a new Amazon warehouse in Boardman, Oregon, alleges she was the victim of wrongful termination after she raised concerns to Read More

• posted: Jul. 25, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• employer retaliation

A former sergeant at the Southern Regional Jail near Charleston, West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against the state’s Regional Jail Authority, alleging employer retaliation. The man, Jason Hefner, says he Read More

• posted: May 14, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• employer retaliation,  workplace retaliation,  fraud,  whistleblower award program

Since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower award program was launched more than three years ago, the agency has handed out payments of more than $50 million to 17 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: 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