On February 26, 2025, in the lawsuit Agency for Persons with Disabilities v. Toal, the First District Court of Appeal held that noneconomic damages are not a form of relief that can be recovered under ...

Former Denton employee Mike Grim testifies in a House State Affairs Committee hearing on a bill to expand whistleblower protections on Monday, April 14, 2025, inside the Texas Capitol in Austin. Texas ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order in August denying a whistleblower award to an individual who provided the agency with evidence that a defendant in a previously filed ...

AUSTIN — A former Denton employee who was fired after reporting a city council member for leaking documents to a reporter told Texas lawmakers Monday that the state’s Whistleblower Act failed him. “I ...

Company A is faced with a data breach. In responding to the breach, Company A evaluates the costs and benefits associated with publicly reporting the breach and, perhaps short-sightedly and ...

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. Civics 101 host Nick Capodice joins ...

Whistleblower protections in the United States are built on the principle that federal employees must be free to report wrongdoing without fear of retaliation. The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 ...

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