An employer didn’t waive its rights by participating in a former employee’s whistleblower lawsuit for several months before filing a motion to compel arbitration, the 10th Circuit has ruled in reversing judgment.

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An alleged whistleblower who filed a retaliation complaint under Sarbanes-Oxley after the 90-day period for doing so had expired was entitled to equitable tolling, the Administrative Review Board of the U.S. Department of Labor has ruled.

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In addition to universal health care, the new reform law includes various provisions relevant to lawyers, including tax changes, an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act, new whistleblower provisions for hospital employees and other employment-related updates.

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A Missouri jury yesterday awarded $6.5 million to a former Kansas City police officer who claimed he was fired because he is black and a whistleblower.

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The U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston announced that the Justice Department has filed a False Claims Act complaint against Johnson & Johnson and two subsidiaries for allegedly paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to nursing homes to prescribe its anti-psychotic ...

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Plaintiffs' lawyers are gearing up for a slew of pharmaceutical product liability trials in 2010. While no case has the magnitude of the massive $4.85 billion Vioxx settlement in 2007, the trials represent a welcome return to courtroom action on the pharmaceutical front for plaintiffs' lawyers.

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Attorneys for two whistleblowers who were employed by the University of Phoenix, the nation's largest for-profit university, announced a $78.5 million settlement today of a lawsuit they brought in Sacramento federal court under the federal False Claims Act.

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Taking on corporate giants can feel like tilting at windmills, but John Kopchinski's six-year legal battle against Pfizer Inc just made him a rich man.

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An attorney’s duty to protect client confidences does not necessarily prevent two in-house lawyers from bringing a federal whistleblower suit against their former employer, the 9th Circuit has ruled in reversing a summary judgment.

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A Senate committee has advanced a bill that would give broader whistleblower protection to federal employees.

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