Ed Rachal Foundation v. D'UNGER

Twice in recent years this Court has rejected invitations to create a common-law cause of action for all whistleblowers, noting each time that a general claim would eclipse the Legislature’s decision to enact a number of narrowly-tailored whis-tleblower statutes instead. See Austin v. HealthTrust, Inc.-The Hosp. Co., 967 S.W.2d 400, 401-02 (Tex.1998); Winters v. Houston Chronicle Publ’g Co., 795 S.W.2d 723, 723 (Tex.1990). For the same reason, we reach the same result today.

Claude D’Unger was an officer and director of the Ed Rachal Foundation, a charitable organization that owns a ranch in…