A ten-day trial ended this week with a federal court jury concluding that Shawn and Lena Van Asdale, former in-house attorneys for slot machine manufacturer International Gaming Technology (IGT), had been illegally fired in retaliation for raising concerns about possible shareholder fraud in IGT’s $1.4 billion acquisition of Anchor Gaming in 2001.  After raising these [...]

At a time when the nuclear industry has been pushing for the construction of more reactors, an industry  leader, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA,) suffered a serious setback when the head of its $2.5 billion construction project at the Watts Bar 2 nuclear plant near Knoxville, TN, left his position after the Department of Labor [...]