A federal court recently ruled that an employee may use his employer’s confidential information in a whistleblower retaliation complaint, regardless of whether an employment confidentiality agreement prohibited him from doing so.

In November, an Illinois federal judge blocked a former bank employee from collecting his claimed relator’s share of a potential settlement between the FDIC (acting as the bank’s receiver) and the bank’s former directors.  In denying the relator’s share, the court affirmed the previous ruling of a magistrate judge holding the FDIC in this case did not constitute a “government” agency as contemplated

The Department of Justice’s three-year battle with Quicken Loans over its mortgage underwriting practices came to a head last week, when the DOJ filed suit against the lender seeking to recover treble damages under the False Claims Act.  In its complaint, the DOJ also seeks damages for breach of fiduciary duty and negligence for harm sustained by the U.S.