On May 9, 2025, an Orange County jury awarded $5.8 million to Dr. Mark Linskey, a board-certified neurosurgeon and tenured professor at UC Irvine, in a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit against the University of California Regents. The verdict marked the second time Dr. Linskey prevailed in court over the same pattern of retaliatory conduct, following a $2 million judgment in 2019.

Trial lawyers Mark Quigley and Ivan Puchalt of Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP led the litigation, which exposed over a decade of institutional retaliation. Dr. Linskey had raised serious concerns beginning in 2014 about patient safety, administrative misconduct, and systemic failures at UC Irvine’s medical center. Instead of addressing the issues, university leadership side