Verdict Backing Oil-Royalty Whistle-Blower Is Overturned

News:
In a ruling that could have big implications for whistle-blowers, as well as for the oil and gas industry, a federal judge in Denver has overturned a jury’s verdict in favor of former Interior Department auditor Bobby Maxwell, who revealed that the Kerr-McGee Corporation cheated the government out of millions of dollars’ worth of royalties for oil and gas pumped in publicly owned coastal waters. The judge did not dispute that Maxwell had uncovered cheating by the company, nor the fact that Mr. Maxwell filed his lawsuit as a private citizen after senior Interior Department officials ordered him to abandon his findings. The judge did, however, rule that Maxwell was ineligible to sue Kerr-McGee as a private citizen because he had gathered most of his evidence while on the job, deciding so last week after consistently rejecting that same argument from Kerr-McGee throughout the trial.

Stan, well said !

You wrote,

Still the majority, when read sections of the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights claim such words are "communistic propaganda", the work of the devil or whatever. Ask a typical voter to describe without slogans or talking point quotes why they vote a certain way or to support their opinions based on some diligent thought or judgment and they are lost.
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This rant I targeted at one of our con trolls relates to your above post:

hatemoron,is it the egalitarian part of democracy that you hate?

What parts of democracy do you hate?

Is it the egalitarian parts?

Ya know,the equal justice,race equality,gender equality,enfranchisement equality?

Is it the "equality" part in Jefferson's Declaration?

or is it the word "EQUALITY" itself that throws you cons into hysterical genuflecting regarding Marx?

Me thinks you hate that the economic system of capiatlism is SUBSERVIENT to our political system of DEMOCRACY of WE the PEOPLE !

You cons want it the other way around!

And you cons hate that WE THE PEOPLE have equal rights in voting and making the rules of the game.

According to SANE republican Kevin Phillips, author of “Wealth & Democracy

By AfricaBambaApril 4, 2007 - 3:16pm