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TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES v. OKOLI

No. 10-0567.

440 S.W.3d 611 (2014)

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, Petitioner, v. Oliver OKOLI, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided August 22, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Richards , Richards Rodriguez & Skeith LLC, Conroe, Manuel Quinto-Pozos , Philip Durst , Deats Durst Owen & Levy, P.L.L.C., Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Texas State Employees Union.

Angela Veronica Colmenero , Assistant Attorney General, Beth Ellen Klusmann , Assistant Solicitor General, Office of the Attorney General, Clarence Andrew Weber , Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, Daniel T. Hodge , First Asst. Attorney General, David C. Mattax , Director of Defense Litigation, Office of the Attorney General, David S. Morales , Office of the Attorney General of Texas, Deputy First Assistant Attorney General, Greg W. Abbott , Attorney General of Texas, Jonathan F. Mitchell , Solicitor General, Office of the Attorney General, Robert B. O'Keefe , General Litigation Division, Russ Wayne Harris , Health & Human Services Comm., Ruth Ruggero Hughs , William J. "Bill" Cobb III , Office of the Attorney General, Austin, TX, for Petitioner Texas Department of Human Services.

Okon J. Usoro , Okon J. Usoro, P.C., Houston, TX, Oliver Okoli, for Respondent Oliver Okoli.

Justice BROWN delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice HECHT, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice GUZMAN joined.

The Texas Whistleblower Act protects public employees who in good faith report violations of law to an appropriate law-enforcement authority. TEX. GOV'T CODE § 554.002(a). In this case, an employee reported wrongdoing to his supervisor, who was required to forward the report to a part of the agency with outward-looking law...

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