( July 8, 2025, 10:49 AM EDT) -- BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont federal magistrate judge denied dismissal of a suit alleging violations of the Vermont False Claims Act (VFCA) for a company’s purported wrongful termination of a physician/chief medical officer of operations for the Vermont Department of Corrections, finding that the physician does not need to “plead the submission of a fraudulent claim” to show that he engaged in protected activity under the act....