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Courts and State Legislatures Broaden Claims Available to Cybersecurity Whistleblowers

February 13, 2020
Matthew LaGarde
Like the years immediately preceding it, 2019 marked another banner year for cybersecurity whistleblowers. Lawsuits relating to deficient corporate cybersecurity practices survived challenges in securities litigation and...
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Protecting Employees Against Unfair Non-Compete Agreements

January 24, 2020
Joseph E. Abboud
*Update* On March 16, 2021, the “Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment of 2020” took effect in Washington, D.C. The new law prohibits employers from requiring their employees to sign agreements that include non-compete...
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SEC Whistleblower Program 2019 Annual Report Highlights Continued Success of Program, Despite Decreased Awards this Year

December 18, 2019
Marilyn Gabriela Robb
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower (OWB) has filed its Annual Report to Congress for FY 2019, highlighting the continued success of the SEC Whistleblower Program established by the...
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Board Holds that SOX Section 806 Does Not Apply Extraterritorially.

November 14, 2019
Jolena Jeffrey
On September 18, 2019, the Administrative Review Board (ARB or the Board) issued an important decision in Hu v. PTC, Inc., holding that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) whistleblower retaliation provision does not apply to...
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Court Allows Army Translators to Proceed with Qui Tam Suit

November 11, 2019
Matthew LaGarde
A federal district court’s recent denial of a motion to dismiss a False Claims Act suit provides useful analyses of several recurrent issues in FCA cases, including the “original source” rule, pleading standards, and...
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McDonald’s CEO Fired over Relationship with Employee

November 6, 2019
Antuan M. Johnson
This past weekend, McDonald’s Corporation announced that Steve Easterbrook had been ousted as its president and chief executive, after its board of directors determined that Mr. Easterbrook violated company policy and...
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Second Circuit Rules Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Claims Arbitrable

November 6, 2019
Mehreen Rasheed
On September 19, 2019, the Second Circuit held that an employer may enforce a mandatory arbitration clause against an employee who brings a retaliation claim under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank). See Daly v....
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Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation Strengthening Protections for Whistleblowers

October 29, 2019
Antuan M. Johnson
On September 23, 2019, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the Whistleblower Programs Improvement Act (“WPIA”), S. 2529, to extend whistleblower...
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The Response to Ken Fisher’s Derogatory Comments about Women Show the Costs of Maintaining a Sexist Culture

October 24, 2019
Matthew LaGarde
Billionaire investment analyst Ken Fisher, founder and chairman of Fisher Investments, recently became the latest executive whose offensive views of women were made public.  His comments at the Tiburon CEO Summit revealed a...
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Spike in CFTC Whistleblower Awards as Enforcement Expands in Four Key Areas

October 18, 2019
Joseph E. Abboud
The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) has recently released four alerts aimed at encouraging whistleblowers to come forward with information about money laundering, insider trading, foreign corrupt...
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