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Whistleblower Rules Extend to Private Companies

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Dan Webb

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Chicago
San Francisco

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Sarbanes-Oxley
SOX
Whistleblower
Whistleblower Provisions
White Collar Litigation

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Government Investigations, Enforcement & Compliance

March 31, 2014

Reprinted with permission from ALM. 

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on March 4 that expanded whistleblower protections in a way that will have a significant impact on private companies. In Lawson v. FMR LLC, the Supreme Court held that the antiretaliation protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act apply not only to public companies, but also to employee whistleblowers of private companies that contract with public companies. 

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