The Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board found in favor of the Complainant in Sitts v. COMAIR, Inc. on May 31.  The case involved an airline pilot who was terminated after refusing to fly a plane after his several reports of safety concerns regarding a malfunctioning passenger power door assist system were ignored.  Though it [...]

Large media outlets including the Wall Street Journal and Al-Jazeera have created copycat anonymous disclosure programs modeled after the website Wikileaks, hoping to harness the website’s recent success in inspiring those with access to privileged information to anonymously blow the whistle on corporate and government misconduct.  Shortly after their inception, however, these copycat programs have [...]

A task force created by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) charged with reviewing the safety standards at the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors in the wake of Japan’s recent nuclear disaster has concluded that a considerable percentage of those power plants have not properly trained their workers regarding federal emergency guidelines.  The director of the NRC’s [...]

 Anxieties are mounting in the derivatives market and the connected legal community as it becomes increasingly apparent that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) will not have the new regulatory rules for that market completed by July 16, the day they are required by law to go into [...]