The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 includes a provision protecting whistleblowers
who report suspected accounting fraud, but only a few employees
who’ve litigated the issue in court have achieved the remedies they sought.
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Los Alamos whistleblowers Chuck Montano and Tommy Hook scored a major victory in their struggle to have the University of California repay the United States government millions of dollars in charges. The Department of Energy Inspector General issued a report, released publicly July 10, 2006, which corroborated their findings that UC, the DOE contractor which [...]
Continue Reading →This chapter surveys whistleblower litigation, which is an increasingly significant limitation to the employment-at-will doctrine, under which an employer can otherwise fire an employee for any reason, or no reason. The issues covered are: (1) state common-law tort claims
based on wrongful discharge in violation of public policy; (2) federal whistleblower statutes; and (3) [...]
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