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Terrence Blocker worked for the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company in New Haven, Connecticut, since 2003. He was a laborer in Metro-North's maintenance shop (called the MU Shop), and a union member. On July 27, 2008, Blocker was operating a shuttle...

On Saturday, January 8, 2011, Stephen M. Kohn, National Whistleblowers Center Executive Director, appeared on CBS Evening News. The news segment covered the United States Department of Justice subpoena of private information on select WikiLeaks supporters. The government may have...

Two decades ago, John Green was a regular customer at a Denny's restaurant in Miami, Florida. He saw manager Asif Jawaid treat one of the employees, Floride Norelus, “as a slave.” On December 28, 2010, the 11th Circuit issued an...

The BBC is reporting today that the Obama administration is developing a "test" to detect whistleblowers. "Clearly there are different reasons why people leak information, the public spirited uncovering of wrong-doing being one of them," BBC reporter Olivia Lang writes....

Today, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, issued the following statement expressing his concern about the rise in retaliatory investigations in the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal: The WikiLeaks scandal is being used to justify a witch...

Today, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (H.R. 2571), which contains landmark whistleblower protections for food safety employees. Highlights of the Food Safety Whistleblower Provision:   Covers all employers "engaged in the manufacture, processing, packing, transportation, distribution,...

The National Whistleblowers Center received a new group of interns today.  They arrived with marked enthusiasm to help individuals and the common good.  Here they are: In the top row are David, Sabrina, Whitney and Zach. Seated are Katie, Andrew...

On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of a sickle cell disease researcher who blew the whistle on improper cloning of blood cell lines. The decision clears the way Dr. Duane Bonds...

My colleague, Stephen M. Kohn (Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center) and I spent New Year's Eve racing the clock to file two friend-of-the-court "amicus" briefs with the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Last November, the ARB...

The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, issued an opinion yesterday that denies protection to employees who file retaliation claims under the False Claims Act (FCA). The three judges ignored the friend-of-the-court brief I submitted that argued...