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Dr. Duane Bonds files petition with Supreme Court to expand protections for federal employees
Dr. Duane Bonds has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court this week. Dr. Bonds was our nation's top researcher on sickle cell disease until she blew the whistle on the unauthorized cloning of participants' cells. In January, the...
Westrick wins California appeal under state false claims act
Dr. Aaron Westrick has won reinstatement of his claims under the California False Claims Act. Last Thursday, May 26, 2011, the California Court of Appeal for the Second District (in Los Angeles) issued its decision in State of California ex...
Sylvester wins at ARB in a victory for all whistleblowers
On May 25, 2011, the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) issued a major decision in favor of whistleblowers. In Sylvester v. Parexel International, ARB Case No. 07-123 (ARB May 25, 2011), the ARB held that a whistleblower only...
SEC’s Dodd-Frank rules are a major victory for whistleblowers
Today the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued its final rules under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. By a vote of 3-2, the SEC approved these final rules this morning. The SEC has released a...
Final Whistleblower Provisions in Dodd-Frank Act to be Announced Tomorrow
Tomorrow, May 25th at 9:30 a.m. EST, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will meet to vote on its final rules for the whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The rules will directly relate...
Upcoming: June Corporate Whistleblower CLE Seminars
The National Whistleblowers Center will be hosting a series of seminars this summer. The first two are in Denver on June 23rd and in San Francisco on June 27th. Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host...
SEC to vote on whistleblower regs next Wednesday
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced that it will hold a vote on its whistleblower regulations at its meeting scheduled for next Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. The regulations are controversial. Business interests have been...
Sen. Grassley-SEC shouldn’t “throw whistleblowers to the wolves”
Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) recently released a letter to Mary Schapiro, the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expressing his "serious concerns" with the Proposed Rules for implementing the whistleblower provisions of Dodd-Frank.
Groups spurn NWC and file petition against FCA
Rebuffing an open letter from the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) asking for a face-to-face meeting, and brushing aside the potential consequences for the best whistleblower law ever enacted, three organizations filed a petition yesterday challenging the False Claims Act (FCA)....
Whistleblowers Are Not Terrorists
Section 403 strips any protection for whistleblowers. It stifles speaking the truth to power, and it shuts down any access to courts and due process. But even sadder, it devalues acts of courage and patriotism and destroys them completely and...
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