Parker-Migliorini Whistleblower’s Retaliation Win Will Stand

Parker-Migliorini International LLC lost its challenge to a $275,000 award to a whistleblower who was fired for telling the government that the company made misrepresentations about the countries to which it shipped beef.

A Utah federal district court properly backed a jury’s conclusion that Parker-Migliorini knew Brandon Barrick was engaged in protected activity under the False Claims Act when he was fired, Judge Paul J. Kelly of the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said Tuesday.

Parker-Migliorini argued that Barrick’s claim was insufficient because he didn’t make a connection to the an FCA suit to put the company ...