Sentences with phrase «whistleblower action brought»

Represented home health care employer in whistleblower action brought under state law in Massachusetts.

Achieved dismissal by OSHA on behalf of major US pipeline company based in Texas of whistleblower action brought under federal energy statute.

Not exact matches

I guess in the actual class action suit — and before I get too far ahead of myself, North Country ostensibly deals with the first class action sexual harassment lawsuit brought against a major Union company — a few of the women actually testified against the whistleblower.

To bring a qui tam action under the statute, an individual, or whistleblower, must have personal knowledge and actual evidence of fraud.

Drawing on attorneys from across practice areas and offices, Weil has developed an impressive track record advising with respect to shareholder claims and demands for litigation, internal whistleblower complaints, class and collective actions brought by employees relating to pay, worker classification, and discrimination claims, product liability issues and recalls, privacy rights, intellectual property disputes (patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets), regulatory investigations commenced by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Justice, and state attorneys general, and major disputes with suppliers and competitors.

A company may also be in a position to bring a defamation action against a whistleblower, given that the act of blowing the whistle will typically involve the publication of a statement that causes harm to reputation.

Fair Laboratory Practices Associates v. Quest Diagnostics Inc., the Second Circuit upheld a Southern District of New York ruling which dismissed an action brought by the former general counsel of the defendant Unilab Corp., a wholly - owned subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics Inc., as well as his co-relators, Unilab's former CEO and CFO and disqualified them and their external counsel from bringing any subsequent related qui tam action seeking a whistleblower aware, on the basis that «such measures were necessary to prevent the use of [the former general counsel's] unethical disclosures against defendants.»