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The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center At v. Larry M. Gentilello, M.D

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JUSTICE WILLETT delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Texas Whistleblower Act bars retaliation against a public employee who reports his employer’s or co-worker’s “violation of law” to an “appropriate law enforcement authority”-defined as someone the employee “in good faith believes” can “regulate under or enforce” the law allegedly violated or “investigate or prosecute a violation of criminal law.”*fn1 We

consider today whether an employee’s report to a supervisor is a report to an appropriate law-enforcement authority under the Act where the employee knows his supervisor’s power extends only to ensuring internal compliance with the law purportedly violated. That is, the supervisor, while overseeing internal adherence to the law, is empowered only to refer suspected violations elsewhere and lacks free-standing regulatory, enforcement, or crime-fighting authority.

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