Podcasts

Save The Date: Conference on The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Publics Right to Know
The Government Accountability Project & the American University Washington College of Law are co-sponsoring a conference: The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Public?s Right to Know, on Monday, June 23, 2008, from 9:30 a...

Conference on whistleblower rights
The Government Accountability Project and American University Washington College of Law are sponsoring a conference on whistleblower rights. The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Public?s Right to Know will take place June 23, 2008 at AU Washington College of Law...

Same Time, Different Perspectives on Our Record of Preserving Privacy and Liberty
In an interesting juxtaposition, even for the Federal City, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and former FBI Special Agent and Minneapolis Chief Division Counsel, Coleen Rowley, were each addressing Washington audiences, at nearly the same time, on the same subject: The recent record of maintaining personal privacy and civil liberties during the War on Terror...

Whistleblower's Blawg Review
It's whistleblower week on Capitol Hill and at Blawg Review #159 hosted by the LaBovick law firm's Whistleblower Law Blog, which notes that "independent whistleblower coalitions, such as the International Association of Whistleblowers (IAW), the Make it Safe Campaign, and many other independent whistleblower coalitions, will hold a series of simultaneous but separate events in Washington, D...

It Ain't Easy Being a SOX Whistleblower
Thanks to Richard Moberly (Nebraska) for putting out to me that the Fourth Circuit ruled against the first whistleblower (and only one of 6) to have won a case in front of an ALJ in a Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) whistleblower...

IRS Tax Whistleblower Procedures Continue to Take Shape
The new IRS Whistleblower Office's Rewards Program that we have followed closely on this whistleblower lawyer blog made further progress this week. The IRS gave notice on January 9 that it intends to create a proposed new system of records--"Whistleblower Office Records...

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Utilities Whistleblower
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities agrees to $485,000 fine for setting up a private bank account.

Qui Tam Whistleblower - Government Fraud - Qui Tam Lawsuit
Qui Tam Whistleblower alleging fraud against the government reported by an individual acting as a government whistleblower.

Police Whistleblower
Officer awarded $980,000 for whistleblower violations and retaliation.

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

City and Mayor Whistleblower
Two officers awarded part of $8 million whistleblower settlement.

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.