A state appellate court denied a chemistry professor’s petition for writ of mandate seeking to set aside the superior court’s ruling sustaining a demurrer without leave to amend on his retaliation claim under the California Whistleblower Protection Act against the University of California, finding that the professor failed to properly allege a causal connection between his protected whistleblower disclosures about laboratory safety issues and any adverse employment action attributable to the university administrator who approved his promotion.

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