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In United States of America ex rel Rene Shupe v. Cisco Systems, Inc. and Avnet, Inc., No. 13-40807 (5th Cir. July 7, 2014), the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s order denying a motion to dismiss a qui tam whistleblower suit, ..

On 16 June 2014, the SEC announced the settlement of a case concerning workplace retaliation against a whistleblower and the underlying allegations that the whistleblower reported.

Last week, representatives of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") participated in Sandpiper Partners LLC's Annual SEC/DOJ Enforcement 2016 Panel...

Earlier this month, the SEC (the "Agency") announced that it initiated a record-breaking 868 enforcement actions in fiscal year 2016.

The SEC awarded a record $50 million to a whistleblower for voluntarily providing information that led to a successful enforcement action.

On Wednesday February 21, 2018, the United States Supreme Court rejected a Securities Exchange Commission regulation that sought to expand the definition of a whistleblower under the Dodd-Frank Act, and thereby resolved a split in the Circuit Courts.

Counsel may want to consider additional cautionary language or revisions to their employment agreements to avoid broad restrictions that could discourage potential whistleblowers from reporting violations to the SEC.

On September 6, the SEC issued awards totaling more than $54 million to two whistleblowers who provided critical information and continued assistance to the agency in an enforcement action.

In a petition for a writ of mandamus filed on April 29, 2019 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, an unidentified whistleblower who claims to have tipped the SEC to alleged violations

The SEC recently issued guidance specifying that whistleblowers do not first have to take their concerns to the SEC in order to be covered by the SEC's anti-retaliation rule.

The Texas Appeals Court has recently confirmed that employees of elected officials are protected under the Texas Whistleblower Act. In September 2020, high-ranking officials at the Texas Attorney General's Office ...

Thanks to inexact language in a settlement agreement, a for-profit hospital chain can challenge whistleblowers' eligibility for attorneys' fees under the False Claims Act ("FCA").

April 15 2024 the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice Nicole Argentieri announced a new Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosure for Individuals...

The SEC said that Novartis also conducted its own comprehensive investigation into these matters and implemented accompanying remedial measures.

The U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York announced earlier this month that an award of $210,000 would be awarded to a whistleblower as a result of a $1 million settlement of a civil fraud lawsuit.

The Third Circuit provided an instructive analysis on key causation issues in this most recent opinion.

The Fourth Circuit recently held that SOX whistleblower retaliation claims are subject to a four-year statute of limitations and that emotional distress damages are available in SOX actions.