Tackling the tricky issue of how a plaintiff proves an employer's “intent,” in an opinion issued today, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, corporate whistleblowers have...more
2/9/2024
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Corporate Fraud ,
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Murray v UBS Securities LLC ,
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Whistleblowers
A federal jury in North Carolina awarded a former health executive $10 million in punitive damages after finding that his race and gender—white and male—were motivating factors in his ex-employer’s decision to fire him...
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The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) requires an employer to return a military veteran-employee to the "position of employment" he or she would have been in had the employee not left to...more