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Judge Rules D.C. Whistleblower Protection Act Amendment Retroactive

According to the Government Accountability Project’s blog, D.C. Superior Court Judge Leonard Braman held that a recent amendment to the D.C. Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) exempting whistleblowers...

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DC Jury Finds Police Chief Retaliated Against Whistleblower

According to the Washington Examiner, a D.C. jury awarded Sean McLaughlin damages for retaliation in violation of the DC Whistleblower Protection Act.  McLaughlin alleged D.C. Police Chief Cathy...

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New York Expands False Claims Act and Strengthens Whistleblower Protections

New York recently amended its False Claims Act (FCA) by expanding the Act’s coverage and strengthening the Act’s whistleblower protections.  The New York FCA now applies to violations of New York tax...

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Virginia Bill Would Protect State Employees Who Report Wrongdoing

Virginia Delegate Bill Janis filed House Bill No. 1399 for the General Assembly which would protect state employees who report wrongdoing from retaliation by their supervisors.  The Bill was drafted in...

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DC Whistleblower Protection Act Amendments are Retroactive on Procedural Matters

D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman ruled in Davis v. District of Columbia that procedural aspects of the 2009 amendments to the D.C. Whistleblower Protection Act (DC WPA) retroactively apply to...

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Amendment to D.C. Whistleblower Protection Act Ruled Retroactive

In Winder v. Erste, Judge John D. Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of whistleblower Alfred Winder, holding that the 2009 amendment to the D.C....

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District Court Judge Rules Three Year Statute of Limitations for False Claims...

In Saunders v. District of Columbia [link to opinion], Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that the Federal False Claims Act has a three...

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TELG Principals Publish Authoritative Article on D.C.’s Amended Whistleblower...

The Employment Law Group’s © Managing Principal R. Scott Oswald and former Principal Jason Zuckerman have published a whistleblower article in the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Daily Labor Report...

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Oracle Agrees to Pay U.S. $199.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Lawsuit

According to a Department of Justice Press Release, Oracle Corp. and Oracle America Inc. have agreed to pay $199.5 million plus interest for failing to meet their contractual obligations to the General...

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TELG Principals Publish Article in California Lawyer

The Employment Law Group® principal attorneys David Scher and R. Scott Oswald wrote an article entitled “Blowing the Whistle,”  which appeared in the October 2011 edition of California Lawyer.  In the...

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New Jersey State Trooper Awarded Over $1 Million Whistleblower Settlement

Brian Royster, a former New Jersey State Police trooper, has been awarded $1.06 million by an Essex County Superior Court jury; however, because of a cap on damages for emotional distress under the...

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R. Scott Oswald Publishes Article Review of Whistleblower-Favorable Trends in...

R. Scott Oswald, managing principal of The Employment Law Group, P.C., recently published an article in Law360 reviewing favorable developments in employment law for whistleblowers during 2012....

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City of Sacramento to Set up Anonymous Whistleblower Hotline

The City of Sacramento, California has announced that within the next two months it will adopt a toll-free anonymous whistleblower hotline. The hotline will cost about $200,000 to fund and will be...

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D.C. Legislation Would Extend False Claims Act Treatment to Taxes

On February 5, 2013, D.C. Councilmember Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3) presented the “False Claims Act of 2013” to the Committees on Finance and Revenue.  This bill would extend the current False Claims Act...

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First False Claims Act Tax Recovery in New York; Whistleblower Awarded $1.1...

A well-known New York City tailor pled guilty to tax-evasion charges and separately agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle a related whistleblower case brought under New York State’s False Claims Act...

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New York Awards Whistleblower $300,000 for Reporting Tax Evasion Scheme

New York continued to crack down on tax cheats under its strengthened False Claims Act (FCA), awarding a whistleblower more than $300,000 for reporting an out-of-state retailer’s failure to collect...

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Virginia Attorney General’s Office Intervenes in $1.15 Billion Suit Against...

Like most states, Virginia has its own state statute that mirrors the federal False Claims Act and allows whistleblowers to collect rewards for bringing to light fraud against the state government....

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Maryland Attorney General Urges Adoption of Expanded State False Claims Act

On February 5, 2015, Maryland proposed a new, expanded state False Claims Act that would better allow Maryland to deter and recover damages for fraud against the state. Maryland Attorney General Brian...

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DC Court of Appeals Upholds $300,000 Award to DC Employee Harassed for Giving...

On January 16, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held in Williams v. Johnson that the District of Columbia Whistleblower Protection Act (DCWPA) protects employees who...

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U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal of California Ruling that...

On January 20, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a California Supreme Court ruling that employees could not, through arbitration agreements, waive representative claims under...

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