Keyzer Gets $1.7 Million from UC in Whistleblower Retaliation Case

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This week the University of California issued checks totaling nearly $1.7 million to settle claims brought by Janet Keyzer in her whistleblower retaliation case against UC Davis. This brings to a close her seven-year battle for justice. Ms. Keyzer was terminated in 2007 after exposing human subject research being conducted without requisite legal compliance.

Represented by the Law Office of Mary-Alice Coleman through the seven years of litigation after her termination, Janet Keyzer was forced to oppose three Motions to Strike, two Demurrers, a Motion for Summary Judgment, a Motion to Dismiss, a Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict, and a Motion for New Trial. Ms. Keyzer also had to scratch and claw for every scrap of evidence and testimony, and was further forced to file two Motions to Compel Further Interrogatory Responses, a Motion to Compel Further Document Production, a Motion to Compel Depositions, a Motion to Continue the Trial Date (because of late-produced evidence), and a Motion to Reopen Discovery (because of new information).

In mid-2014, Ms. Keyzer went to trial on a single cause of action for whistleblower retaliation in violation of Government Code § 8547.10. Shortly before trial commenced, Lawrance Bohm, Esq., of the Bohm Law Group was hired to try the case after the Regents took the unusual defense tactic of identifying Ms. Keyzer’s long-time attorney, Mary-Alice Coleman, as a trial witness.

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[Source]: Davis Vanguard