Marrita Murphy challenged the unfair taxation of compensation and damages awarded to illegally fired whistleblowers.  Although she was initially successful, the court of appeals buckled under pressure from the government and reversed its decision.  The campaign to end unfair taxation continues.

Vera English was a pioneer whistleblower in the 1980’s.  Ms. English was fired from General Electric after exposing widespread radiation contamination. Her Supreme Court case established the right of whistleblowers to pursue cases under state law.

Dr. Jonathan Fishbein is one of the highest-ranking drug whistleblowers in American history.  He was fired from his position as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office for Policy in Clinical Research Operations after exposing misconduct in AIDS drug safety clinical trials.  Dr. Fishbein won his whistleblower case and was reinstated setting a national precedent protecting government doctors from retaliation.

Linda Tripp made disclosures to the Office of Independent Counsel that the president  had lied under oath resulting in the sitting president being found in contempt of court and losing his law license.  The Department of Defense retaliated by leaking inflammatory confidential information from Ms. Tripp's personnel file. Ms. Tripp reached a settlement in her Privacy Act lawsuit with the Federal Government.