Law360, New York (June 19, 2012, 8:12 PM ET) -- A Texas appeals court on Tuesday revived a suit filed by a former Harris County employee alleging he was fired for reporting to federal authorities that the county sheriff ordered subordinates to secretly hack into county computer systems.
The Fourteenth Court of Appeals ruled that Wilfrido Mata’s allegation that Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia authorized the use of a method popular with computer hackers in order to obtain information about routers and passwords for the county’s computer network was sufficient to trigger the protections of the...
Texas Court Reopens County Worker's Retaliation Suit
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