Legal Opinion
Tides v. the Boeing Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 3, 2011No. 10-35238PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:
We hold today that by its express terms, the whistleblower provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1514A(a)(l), protects employees of publicly-traded companies who disclose certain types of information only to the three categories of re eipients specifically enumerated in the Act — federal regulatory and law enforcement agencies, Congress, and employee supervisors. Leaks to the media are not protected.
I. BACKGROUND 1
In January 2007, plaintiffs Matthew Neumann and Nicholas Tides began working as auditors in Boeing’s IT Sarbanes-Oxley (“SOX”) Audit…
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