DALLAS — A federal court in Texas partially dismissed a former Microsoft employee’s lawsuit alleging he was terminated in retaliation for refusing to perform illegal acts and for reporting unlawful conduct involving a federal contract. Microsoft argued the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction, but the National Defense Authorization Act’s requirement that litigants exhaust their administrative remedies is not a jurisdictional claim-processing rule.
Read the ruling here.
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