Armando Gonzalez v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

It is a criminal offense under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act1 to discipline any person for voluntarily furnishing information to a “person in interest” about the facts incident to an injury to an employee. Moreover, an employee who furnishes information about an injury to an FELA plaintiff or his lawyer may obtain injunctive relief without exhausting administrative remedies if his employer discharges him for furnishing such information.2 The issue is whether an employee may obtain injunctive relief without exhausting administrative remedies when a railroad…