Case: Individual Employment Rights/False Claims Act (D. Alaska)

A federal court granted summary judgment to JAMHI Health and Wellness, Inc., a non-profit providing safe affordable housing for adults with mental illness, on the False Claims Act retaliation and wrongful discharge claims of an assistant residential services director. The assistant director alleged that he was terminated for making complaints about being asked to edit support service notes, and objecting to the use of restrictive measures to manage residents. The non-profit argued that these internal complaints didn’t constitute protected activity under the FCA. A reasonable employee might believe that the nonprofit was committing fraud when it asked him to edit ...