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The Solicitor General has filed the Government’s brief in opposition to the granting of certiorari in a key Whistleblower/Civil Rights tax case that was filed with the Supreme Court by attorneys working with the National Whistleblower Center.  The case is...

Federal employees got a bit of good news last month when the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck down a district court’s attempt to keep federal employees from being able to litigate non-discrimination claims as...

The Transportation Security Administration announced this week that its screeners would have the ability to appeal their whistleblower retaliation claims. The screeners have, since the agency's 9/11 reforms, enjoyed far less federal employee whistleblower protection than other government employees. Before...

The National Whistleblower Center has joined an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court to support the rights of FOIA requesters.  The amicus brief was filed by the National Security Archive, OpenTheGovernment.org, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the...

I attended the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning on the False Claims Act Correction Act of 2007.  Senators Leahy, Specter, Grassley and Durbin all attended intermittently, with Senator Grassley being the only member to attend the entire hearing. The...

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing this Wednesday on the False Claims Correction Act of 2007, S.2041 (discussed previously here). More details to follow... UPDATE: Stephen M. Kohn, President of the National Whistleblower Center, has submitted written...

In the wake of the deadly 2006 Sago mine disaster in West Virginia, angry miners came forward to say that the company that managed the mining company had blatantly sacrificed routine maintenance in favor of greater productivity. Why didn't these...

The Washington Post is reporting that Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate have reached a compromise on legislation to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). This essentially ensures that the legislation (S.2045) will pass the Senate within the...

In a recent University of Chicago study, researchers determined (again) that whistleblowers are the best tool for fighting corporate fraud. One unfortunate, but not surprising, finding was that  of whistleblowers whose identity was revealed, 82% of them were either forced...

Today we learned that the U.S. Government will receive a 30 day extension from the U.S. Supreme Court to file their reply brief in Murphy v. IRS (More on Murphy v. IRS here).  This is the Solicitor's second 30 day...