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Supreme Court and Congress act in the same week to undercut the rule of law
June 1st, 2018
In Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, the United States Supreme Court recently declared that employees can be forced to give up their rights to participate in class actions or collective actions when they face wage theft, retaliation, discrimination, haras…
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Supreme Court unites to side with corporations over whistleblowers
March 5th, 2018
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”), 12 U.S.C. §§ 5301, et seq., prohibits an employer from retaliating against a person who provides information to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“…
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Whistleblowers win in important False Claims Act cases
September 13th, 2017
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which typically has sided with employers and other defendants rather than with whistleblowers and other plaintiffs, recently reversed the district court that had ruled in favor of defendants in a high-profile whis…
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Victory for whistleblowers under the false claims act
July 1st, 2016
In Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States of America, et al. ex rel. Escobar, et al., a unanimous Supreme Court rendered a landmark decision for whistleblowers under the False Claims Act and for taxpayers in general. In that case, the Supre…
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Are banksters finally being held accountable?
August 17th, 2013
Many are familiar with the proverbial golden rule: do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Some have put a twist on the golden rule to say it now means that those with the gold make the rules. The behavior that led to the financial meltd…
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