According to Variety, Digital Domain, the prominent visual effects company, lost the wrongful termination suit to Christian Bradley Call.  Call said that he was wrongfully fired by Wyndcrest Holdings, Digital Domain’s parent company, by trying to prevent fraudulent projections on the side of Digital Domain being presented to a potential investor.  Call got a tidy $1.2 million for wrongful termination and another $659,500 for breach of contract totaling roughly $2 million.

On the wrongful termination claim, the jury voted 10-2 that “Brad Call’s efforts to prevent Digital Domain from providing fraudulent projections to a potential lender were a motivating factor for Digital Domain’s decision to discharge” the exec. The jury was instructed that for his claim to be upheld, Call only had to believe he was preventing a crime, not that an actual fraud was taking place.

The jury was spared the duty of deciding if Wyndcrest did commit fraud, and concentrated on the battle between Call and Wyndcrest.  However, Call didn’t get it all his own way.  When Digital Domain countersued Call, the jury found that he did break his confidentiality agreement with the FX company and awarded Digital Domain $60,000.

Wyndcrest also asserted that Digital Domain management “performed well in meeting our original growth expectations and has returned the company to a position of market prominence. While we disagree with the decision regarding wrongful termination, we are pleased that each and every one of Mr. Call’s fraud claims were rejected.”