{"id":128171,"date":"2025-07-24T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=128171"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:10:38","slug":"gcs-disclosures-of-former-client-info-not-protected-by-whistleblower-laws-state-high-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/24\/gcs-disclosures-of-former-client-info-not-protected-by-whistleblower-laws-state-high-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"GC’s Disclosures of Former Client Info Not Protected by Whistleblower Laws, State High Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhether the disclosures were the acts of a disgruntled, recently-terminated employee or of a dutiful public servant, McCarty knowingly disclosed client information in violation of his sworn duty of confidentiality. No matter how noteworthy his disclosure may have been, it does not justify violating his sacred duty to his client,” the state high court said.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n

\u201cWhether the disclosures were the acts of a disgruntled, recently-terminated employee or of a dutiful public servant, McCarty knowingly disclosed client information in violation of his sworn duty of confidentiality. No matter how noteworthy his disclosure may have been, it does not justify violating his sacred duty to his client,” the state high court said.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhether the disclosures were the acts of a disgruntled, recently-terminated employee or of a dutiful public servant, McCarty knowingly disclosed client information in violation of his sworn duty of confidentiality. No matter how noteworthy his disclosure may have been, it does not justify violating his sacred duty to his client,” the state high court said. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/legal-news-SkcQTl.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128177,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128171\/revisions\/128177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}