Judge says Dodd-Frank arbitration ban applies retroactively
U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock issued an order yesterday that applies a ban on arbitration agreements retroactively. Congress enacted ...
Tag: SOX
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 ...
Amicus briefs address OSHA complaints and protected activity
My colleague, Stephen M. Kohn (Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center) and I spent New Year's Eve racing the ...
NWC Opposes Corporate Lobby Attempt to Weaken Whistleblower Provisions in Dodd-Frank
The proposals by the Corporate Lobby are not "user friendly" as required by the statute and do not further the ...
Boeing’s brief claims SOX can never protect disclosures to the media
Lawyers for Matt Neumann and Nick Tides are currently finishing their last brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...
NWC files brief arguing that SOX protects disclosures to the media
On behalf of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), David Colapinto and I filed a friend-of-the-court brief last week arguing that ...
Whistleblower sues Bayer over termination
According to Reuters, whistleblower, Ralph Fabiano, sued German pharmaceutical manufacturing company, BAYER AG. Fabiano alleges that he was terminated from ...
NWC letter to ARB explains how Dodd-Frank Act ices SOX subsidiary coverage
Last week, I posted here an amicus brief for the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) explaining how ...
Lawyers start assessing Dodd-Frank Act remedies
President Obama is scheduled to sign the Dodd-Frank Act tomorrow to enact the most significant reforms of our financial system ...
NWC joins with NELA and GAP for ARB amicus on SOX subsidiary coverage
In April, I wrote here about the request of the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) for amicus (friend ...
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