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LAWSON v. PPG ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES, INC.

No. S266001.

12 Cal.5th 703 (2022)

WALLEN LAWSON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PPG ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES, INC., Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

January 27, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

HKM Employment Attorneys, Patrick Leo McGuigan , Chaka Okadigbo ; Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel, Bruce C. Fox and Andrew J. Horowitz , for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Littler Mendelson, Michael W. M. Manoukian , Theodore A. Schroeder , Robert W. Pritchard , Everett Clifton Martin ; Hopkins & Carley and Karin M. Cogbill , for Defendant and Respondent.

Nicholas Patrick Seitz , Cristina Schrum-Herrera , David L. Bell , Dorothy A. Chang and Phoebe Liu , for Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement as Amicus Curiae.

OPINION

The question in this case concerns the proper method for presenting and evaluating a claim of whistleblower retaliation under Labor Code section 1102.5. Since 2003, the Labor Code has prescribed a framework: Once an employee-whistleblower establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that retaliation was a contributing...

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