Supreme Court Issues Decision in Federal Whistleblower Case CRS Legal Sidebar

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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

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2015

Summary:

Reviews Supreme Court decision in DHS volume 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

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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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CRS-2015-AML-0096

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