City of Houston v. Levingston

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• explaining that Act is “designed to enhance openness in government and to compel the government’s compliance with law by protecting those who inform authorities of wrongdoing”
• reports included violations of criminal law and evidence that city department charged with investigating or enforcing laws at issue
• “Just because many of Leving-ston’s reports to Nix ‘concerned employee performance failures’ does not mean that his reports of the above cited instances did not concern ‘a violation of any law.’ ”
• appellant waived complaint as to compensatory damages when appellant failed to object to broad-form damages submission and failed to argue insufficiency of evidence as to all compensatory damage grounds
• “ Just because many of Levingston’s reports to Nix ‘concerned employee performance failures’ does not mean that his reports of the above cited instances did not concern ‘a violation of any law.’”

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