Sylvester wins at ARB in a victory for all whistleblowers
On May 25, 2011, the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) issued a major decision in favor of whistleblowers. ...
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SEC’s Dodd-Frank rules are a major victory for whistleblowers
Today the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued its final rules under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer ...
Ninth Circuit denies protection for going to the media
In a major setback for whistleblowers, a panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has decided that going ...
Citizen activism does the impossible: One WPEA loophole closed
Yesterday, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 (WPEA), S. 743. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive ...
Iowa House votes to put animal rights whistleblowers in jail
The Iowa House of Representatives has voted to put animal rights whistleblowers in jail. On March 17, 2011, the House ...
Rewards for whistleblowers examined
Yesterday, the Christian Science Monitor released a story about the rewards available to corporate whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank Act. Correspondent ...
ARB holds first oral argument in a SOX case
Today the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) held its first oral argument in a case under the Sarbanes-Oxley ...
CFTC invites comments on whistleblower regs
The Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) has proposed a series of regulations to implement the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and ...
Obama Signs Landmark Whistleblower Protections in Food Safety Act
Today, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (H.R. 2571), which contains landmark whistleblower protections for food safety ...
S. 372 dies in Senate tonight
We have received confirmation from two sources that a Senator has placed an anonymous hold on S. 372, the Senate's ...
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