Texas Department of Human Services v. Hinds

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• concluding that this standard “best protects employees from unlawful retaliation without punishing employers for legitimately sanctioning misconduct or harboring bad motives never acted upon”
• holding that correct causation standard is whether employer = s action would not have occurred when it did had the employee = s protected communication not been made
• noting that although proffered instruction misstated law, it directed trial court’s attention to need for proper instruction
• noting that although proffered instruction misstated law, it directed trial court’s attention to need for proper instruction
• presuming that legislature would have specified a sole-cause standard in the whistleblower statute and that the causal language “because” indicated a lesser standard
• presuming that legislature would have specified a sole-cause standard in the whistleblower statute and that the causal language \because\ indicated a lesser standard

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