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Three weeks before Christmas, in 2016, Greg Robillard received an email from his lawyer. Attached was a brusque, five-page letter from an attorney representing his former employer, a tech startup named Opal Labs based in Portland, Oregon.The company intended to sue him over his GitHub account.

'In practice, the provision has sometimes failed to protect even the most fastidious would-be whistleblowers.In one of the earliest cases to test the law, an insurance company, Unum, sued a former employee, Timothy Loftus, alleging misappropriation after he took boxes of documents to investigate what he suspected was illegal activity.

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