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Important Whistleblower Litigation Articles

Conflicting Rulings About SOX’s Scope Cause Private Company Employees To Stay With DOL Adjudication

October 30th, 2012

October 2012 The Administrative Review Board (ARB) for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued a decision regarding the scope of the whistleblower protections [...]

SOX Whistleblower Protections Again Interpreted Narrowly

August 3rd, 2011

May 2011   The Ninth Circuit took a narrow reading of the whistleblower protections provided under Sarbanes-Oxley, and thereby eliminated the applicability of any whistleblower [...]

Ninth Circuit Reinstates More Lenient Standard For Whistleblower Protection

August 12th, 2009

Aug 2009 Whistleblowers have had a difficult time obtaining the protection afforded under Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 806. This is largely because the Department of Labor (DOL), [...]

DOL Continues To Ignore And Rewrite Sox’s Whistleblower Law

September 17th, 2008

September 2008 According to records maintained by the Department of Labor (DOL), the government has ruled in favor of whistleblowers 17 times out of 1,273 [...]

U.S. Supreme Court Makes Recovery By Whistleblower Plaintiffs More Difficult

April 12th, 2007

Apr 2007 The Supreme Court ruled that a qui tam informant cannot receive compensation if he lacked “direct and independent knowledge of the information upon [...]