Texas Department of Human Services v. Hinds

The Texas Whistleblower Act provides that certain public employees discriminated against for reporting a violation of the law in good faith to an appropriate law enforcement authority may sue for damages and other relief. 1 The Act does not expressly state what causal connection a public employee must prove between his report and his employer’s conduct before he is entitled to prevail in such a suit — that is, whether the report was the sole reason for the employer’s actions, or only one reason among others, or something in between. We conclude that the report need not be the employer’s sole…