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Washington, D.C. December 17, 2008. The National Whistleblower  Center and Government Accountability Project filed an amicus brief in support of a whistleblower in a case filed under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.   In this Maryland case, the judge ordered the case back to the Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board (ARB) saying that the de novo […]

We told you that Obama’s hardest promise would be protecting whistleblowers. According to the Washington Post, he just might be up for it. See the Blog  Whistleblowers May Have a Friend in the Oval Office By Joe Davidson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 11, 2008; D03 While Barack Obama’s election victory led millions of Americans to cheer […]

Washington, D.C. December 12, 2008. The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and its Department of Defense have approved new rules governing federal contracting which go into effect today. These rules, the result of a rulemaking proceeding initiated by the General Services Administration and the Department of Defense, now require all major federal contractors to implement “internal […]

That law was vigorously opposed by the National Association of Manufacturers, and contains some of the best whistleblower protections under federal law. A copy of the article is linked here. In the article, the head of the Chicago law firm Greenberg Traurig’s product liability practice group, Frank Citera, admitted that the whistleblower provisions of the CPS […]

On Nov. 17, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce launched an investigation into whether senior managers at the device center “knowingly corrupted the scientific review process and approved or cleared medical device applications in gross violation” of the law and agency regulations. The investigation was prompted by an Oct. 14 1letter to Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), […]