California Relaxes Standard For Proving Whistleblower Claims Lawson v. PPG Architectural Finishes, Inc., 12 Cal. 5th 703 (2022) Plaintiff Wallen Lawson, who was discharged by his employer PPG Ar...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering changes to its billion-dollar whistleblower program with two amendments. First, a tweak to Rule 21F-3 would give the agency the discret...

Attorneys at K&L Gates on Thursday removed an employment discrimination class action against Reckitt Benckiser LLC to New Jersey District Court. The suit, over alleged wage-and-hour violation...

Alifine Dining Inc., D/B/A Nanking and its co-defendants may not compel arbitration of a former employee’s putative collective and class action claims alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standa...

Trial court shouldn’t have zeroed out claims, Ninth Circuit said Roadrunner estimates should have been given more latitude Roadrunner Transportation Services Inc. can keep a proposed class acti...

Top-secret evidence will be allowed in the prosecution of Bernard Collaery, the man who exposed Australian spying in East Timor, an ACT Supreme Court judge has ruled. Greg Barns examines the impl...

Practical Compliance By: Brian H. Benjet Katrina A. Hausfeld Gregory Ferroni Kara Thomas Beck Brett Feldman Jamie Kurtz For many, March 13, 2020 signaled the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wo...

CVS Caremark Corp. doesn’t have to produce attorney-client communications to a whistleblower in a False Claims Act suit alleging Medicare fraud despite her claim that the production of law firm m...

ALBANY — The Amsterdam doctor who sued a butcher shop manager over a COVID mask mandate has himself been sued, for allegedly firing an employee who reported COVID protocol violations at his offic...