July 07, 2023
A former UBS employee's whistleblower suit, which was taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court, has garnered formal support from the U.S. government and various advocacy groups, which have filed amicus briefs to help the ex-employee to reverse a Second Circuit decision voiding a nearly $1 million retaliation award.
June 28, 2023
A former UBS employee whose whistleblower case has been taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court has urged the justices to reverse a Second Circuit decision voiding a nearly $1 million retaliation award, arguing that the lower court ignored parts of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
May 02, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear the case of a former UBS employee who claims he was fired for alerting his boss to potential illegal activity could reverberate beyond the financial industry to determine the future success of whistleblower retaliation claims pressed by employees in the transportation, nuclear energy and food safety sectors.
May 01, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case from a UBS tipster who argued the Second Circuit wrongly voided a nearly $1 million award the former bank employee won after a jury in 2017 found his whistleblowing contributed to his firing.
March 20, 2023
UBS told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that the Second Circuit correctly overturned a nearly $1 million award granted to an ex-employee in his wrongful termination suit, saying his petition fails to actually challenge an appellate panel's ruling and addresses only one of the two bases for the decision.