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On October 10, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC. Employers and HR professionals throughout the United States...

The ARB hears appeals from decisions of OSHA administrative law judges assigned by Congress to decide claims under a host of whistleblower laws, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

On June 12, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas granted a motion to dismiss in favor of the defendant in a SOX whistleblower retaliation case.

Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) recently introduced the Whistleblower Augmented Reward and Non-Retaliation Act of 2016.

After Merck terminated Westawski's employment in a restructuring, she filed a whistleblower retaliation suit under Section 806 of SOX.

On August 26, 2022, the Third Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment in favor of an employer, holding that whistleblower retaliation protections in the False Claims Act...

Sue Schaecher's article "Treating Whistleblowers as Friends, not Foes" was featured in Law Week Colorado on October 19, 2015.

Turning the table on Whistleblowers: Alabama state court allows employer lawsuit to proceed against whistleblower

On May 5, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it awarded an undisclosed whistleblower almost $279 million for their assistance in an investigation that led to three successful...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that whistleblower protections of Sarbanes-Oxley extend not only to employees of public companies, but to the employees of their contractors and subcontractors.

These days, just about anyone with an Internet connection and some time on their hands enjoys a wonder of the modern age: binge-watching.

On August 12, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Lamb v. Rockwell Automation Inc., held that the Dodd-Frank whistleblower protection provision only protects individuals who provide information to the SEC.

According to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, an attorney – or any individual, for that matter – should not have to first report misconduct to the SEC...

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts’ 2025 Dodd-Frank Report examines how the post-2008 financial regulatory landscape has performed under renewed stresses, such as bank failures and crypto-asset collapses.

With an "alert" issued June 20, 2023, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is targeting carbon markets by asking whistleblowers to come forward...

On April 1, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had settled its first enforcement action under SEC Rule 21F-17...

On May 25, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") adopted final rules implementing the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform regulations, which provide that individuals who report potential securities violations to the SEC may be entitled to a reward of between 10 and 30 percent of any monetary recovery exceeding $1 million.

Amid this year's last-minute budget negotiations, Connecticut's legislature found something on which nearly all members could agree in the bipartisan, sweeping expansion of the State False Claims Act (FCA).