Michael Rhinehimer v. U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• applying Skidmore deference and noting that the purpose of the whistleblower statute “turns on employees’ reasonable belief rather than requiring them to ultimately substantiate their allegations”
• “The evidence should not be weighed, and the credibility of the witnesses should not be questioned. The judgment of [the] court should not be substituted for that of the jury.”
• “[T]he reasonableness of the employee’s belief will depend on the totality of the circumstances known (or reasonably albeit mistakenly perceived) by the employee at the time of the complaint, analyzed in light of the employee’s training and experience.” (emphasis added)
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• adopting Sylvester applying Skidmore deference

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).