October 11, 2024
Fresh off her shot-from-a-cannon debut during the U.S. Supreme Court's previous term, Easha Anand of Stanford Law School is moving full steam ahead into the new term, arguing Tuesday against one of the nation's most accomplished oral advocates. If things go as usual, Anand says she'll have nerves "out the wazoo" before and even after the showdown — but none at all when staying calm matters most.
February 08, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision Thursday in favor of a UBS whistleblower has solidified whistleblower protections across a wide range of industries, with one attorney saying the ruling has made the Sarbanes-Oxley Act the most pro-employee labor law in the country.
February 08, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday that whistleblowers don't need to show that employers displayed retaliatory intent to have a viable case under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a ruling experts say could help workers pursuing retaliation claims under discrimination laws like Title VII keep their claims in court.
February 08, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday found that whistleblowers don't need to show retaliatory intent on the part of their employers in order to be protected under federal law, in a unanimous ruling in favor of a former UBS employee and whistleblower who fought to restore a $900,000 jury verdict he secured in 2017.
October 27, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court's dawning term is quickly shedding light on fissures in a six-justice supermajority, providing new evidence of areas where the conservative camp isn't predictably rock-solid despite its rapid reshaping of the nation's legal landscape.
October 10, 2023
Several U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared to back the position of a UBS whistleblower fighting to restore a $900,000 jury verdict, as they expressed skepticism of the bank's stance that a whistleblower needs to show that an employer intentionally retaliated against them in order to be protected under federal law.
October 06, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court will return from a three-day weekend to hear arguments over the constitutionality of South Carolina's new congressional map, the burden of proof whistleblowers carry in retaliation lawsuits, and whether federal or state law should govern certain maritime insurance disputes.
September 26, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the solicitor general's request to participate in two October oral argument sessions related to disputes over whether a whistleblower is required to prove his former employer intended to retaliate against him, and the constitutionality of South Carolina's congressional map.
September 19, 2023
Eugene Scalia, the son of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, will present oral arguments before the high court for the first time next month as he seeks to uphold a victory won by UBS AG in a case accusing the bank of retaliating against an alleged whistleblower, Law360 has learned.
August 16, 2023
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has told the Supreme Court that an appeals court correctly required a UBS whistleblower to prove his former employer meant to retaliate by firing him after he told supervisors he was being pressured to alter research on the bank's commercial mortgage-backed securities business.