By Steve Kardell | Published December 21, 2015 | Posted in New Legislation | Tagged Tags: Dallas lawyers, handguns, House Bill 910, Senate Bill 11, Texas legislature | Leave a comment
Texas Expands Handgun Rights Through 2016 and Beyond
The Texas legislature recently passed two bills related to handgun possession in the state. House Bill 910 makes it legal for people to carry handguns openly. Senate Bill 11 allows people who have handgun licenses to carry concealed handguns in some circumstances on college campuses across the Lone Star State. The following is a quick Read More
Read MoreHanford Whistleblower Case Comes to $4.1 Million Settlement
A former employee at a nuclear weapons cleanup project run by Hanford recently came to a $4.1 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging the company retaliated against him for speaking up about questionable safety practices. The employee and plaintiff in the case was Walter Tamosaitis, who had been a contractor at the Hanford site in Read More
Read MoreAlbuquerque Public Schools Whistleblower Speaks Out About Allegations
Don Moya, the chief financial officer of the Albuquerque (New Mexico) Public Schools, recently filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the school district, its superintendent (Luis Valentino) and the New Mexico Public Education Department Secretary (Hanna Skandera). The lawsuit includes multiple claims against the defendants, and Moya recently spoke publicly about a few of them. According Read More
Read MoreWhistleblower Accuses Medicare Advantage Organizations of Overbilling
A Texas whistleblower has filed a lawsuit against CenseoHealth LLC and various other Medicare Advantage organizations, claiming they have been regularly overcharging Medicare for the in-home care they provide to patients. The plaintiff is Becky Ramsey-Ledesma, a former coding manager for Censeo, and she has demanded her claim be presented in a jury trial. The Read More
Read More5th Circuit Court Revives a SOX Whistleblower Action
The Fifth Circuit Court recently revived Wallace v. Tesoro Corp, a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower complaint that had previously been dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The Fifth Circuit found the plaintiff’s alleged belief that the company was in violation of certain Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules was not unreasonable. Read More
Read MoreCivil Servants: the Government’s First Line of Defense Against Corruption
Within the last five years, the federal government has introduced unprecedented levels of protection for whistleblowers and greater incentives for them to come forward in the form of record amounts of financial compensation. This is because the government has recognized that people who serve in government jobs on local levels are truly the nation’s first Read More
Read MoreSenate Once Again Looks at Antitrust Whistleblower Protection Bill
In June, some members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a new measure entitled the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2015. This bill, if approved, would add some additional protection for whistleblowers who give information to the Department of Justice about certain wrongdoing and criminal violations of federal antitrust laws. The legislation wouldn’t just Read More
Read MoreArmani Accused of Retaliating Against Whistleblower Who Claims Racial Discrimination
The Giorgio Armani Corporation recently became the target of a whistleblower lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, by Norma Moreno, a former sales associate for the well-known brand. Moreno claims Barbara Camozzi, the general manager of the luxury fashion retailer, regularly discriminated against minority customers and employees and that Read More
Read MoreJudge Sides with Lincare in Whistleblower Lawsuit
A Florida judge recently shot down a False Claims Act lawsuit filed against Lincare Inc. after a plaintiff accused the medical supplies company of fraudulent billing and making a number of improper Medicare telemarketing phone calls. According to the judge, the two former employees of Lincare who brought the suit did not provide enough evidence Read More
Read MoreA Roundup of Recently Unsealed Health Care Qui Tam Whistleblower Cases
There were 36 different qui tam cases related to healthcare law that have recently been unsealed, eight of which were filed just within the past year and others of which were filed as far back as nine years ago. These 36 cases comprised claims filed in federal courts across 18 states. Eight of the cases Read More
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