Supreme Court Seeks Government Input on SOX Whistleblower Protections

From Michael Azzi, at law firm Warner, Norcross & Judd: 

“… the U.S. Supreme Court asked Solicitor General Donald Verrilli to present the government’s view on the type of employees that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s ‘whistleblower’ provisions protect. This question was raised in Lawson v. FMR LLC, a case with a petition for certiorari currently pending before the Court.  Under section 1514A of the Act, employees of public companies cannot be retaliated against for reporting suspected violations of Securities and Exchange Commission rules or of federal laws relating to fraud.  At issue in Lawson is whether the Act also protects employees of a private contractor of a public company from retaliation.”

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