
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded the class of employees entitled to whistleblower protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Sarbanes-Oxley” or “the Act”). In its 6-3 decision in Lawson v. FMR LLC, the Court held that the employees of private companies that contract with publicly held companies are entitled to […]