Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Hamrick v. Glaxosmithkline LLC
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 17, 2016No. 15-1434PPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
While employed by GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”), Blair Hamrick (“Hamrick”) told two Human Resource (“HR”) managers that he was thinking about killing a coworker. When Hamrick shortly thereafter told several co-workers that he hated the company, wanted to shoot some people, and was obsessed with the thought of killing certain specifically identified co-workers, GSK immediately put Hamrick on paid administrative leave, and thereafter fired him. Hamrick then claimed that GSK had fired him because it had learned that he had initiated a qui tam action accusing GSK of fraud under…
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