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The law continues to reward whistleblowers who fight fraud
June 5th, 2017
The courts have long recognized the vital role that whistleblowers play in the nation’s system of justice. Without the assistance of whistleblowers, significant and costly legal violations would happen without any meaningful accountability for the…
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Recent Minnesota Supreme Court rulings favor employees
April 17th, 2017
Employees and other plaintiffs tended to have difficulty succeeding before the Minnesota Supreme Court in the past. That trend appears to be changing, as reflected by two recent decisions that should have significance well beyond the cases themselves…
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Confirmed: whistleblowers make things better!
January 3rd, 2017
A new study from the University of Iowa undertook a sophisticated analysis to confirm something as simple as it is obvious. In particular, the study found that whistleblowing reduces harmful conduct. The study, which will be published in the latest e…
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Welcome to the surveillance state?!
November 1st, 2016
The Center for Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University Law Center recently issued a report, “The Perpetual Line-Up,” which determined that half of the nation’s adults are in at least one facial-recognition database used by police or o…
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Some whistleblowers left in the lurch by agency delay
October 17th, 2016
Many have heard about the recent disclosures regarding Wells Fargo & Co. opening unauthorized accounts for clients, which forced the bank’s Chief Executive Officer to resign abruptly under a cloud of controversy. As it turns out, however, enfor…
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Another tool to combat rampant employee misclassification
September 19th, 2016
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has joined an array of enforcement agencies in cracking down on the misclassification of employees as purported independent contractors. In a recently issued Advice Memorandum, the NLRB General Counsel…
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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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The legal landscape for whistleblowers
November 9th, 2015
The Minnesota Legislature recently amended Minnesota’s whistleblower law to revise the statutory definitions of “good faith,” “penalize,” and “report” and, consequently, to extend the reach of the law. To that end, the whistleblower law…
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Converging efforts to shut down the corporate shell game
September 1st, 2015
As the economy has become more globalized and volatile, a growing number of companies have sought to minimize liabilities while maximizing profits by using the corporate form to create supposed separation between closely related entities. This “sep…
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$14 million victory for 5 plaintiffs in landmark labor trafficking case
March 2nd, 2015
A Federal jury in New Orleans returned a verdict in the first of numerous labor trafficking cases against a global construction company with major operations in the United States, Signal International, Inc., and several co-defendants. The jury awarde…
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