Supreme Court Issues Decision in Federal Whistleblower Case : CRS Legal Sidebar.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Laws, etc. (Statutes of the United States).

United States.

Actions and defenses.

Judge-made law.

Security classification (Government documents).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (2 pages)) : digital, PDF file

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015.

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text file

PDF

Summary:

Reviews Supreme Court decision in DHS volumes MacLean that determined a TSA employee who disclosed text messages classified as sensitive security information to the media was protected from termination by the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA). Outlines Supreme Court findings that WPA does not protect disclosures that are prohibited by statutes, but does protect disclosures that are prohibited only by rules or regulations.

Notes:

CRS Report.

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Apr. 2015). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

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Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division. Supreme Court Issues Decision in Federal Whistleblower Case

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