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Wiest v. Lynch
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided April 16, 2014No. Civil Action No. 10-3288PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
PRATTER, District Judge.
Jeffrey Wiest has sued Tyco Electronics Corporation (“Tyco”) and four individual Defendants under the whistleblower protection provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, section 806, 18 U.S.C. § 1514A, for retaliating against him for his intracompa-ny reports of suspected fraud and violations of federal tax law. The Defendants together filed a Motion to Dismiss (Docket No. 35), which the Court now grants in part and denies in part.1
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In the course of an earlier iteration of this dispute, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Jeffrey Wiest v. Tyco Electronics CorpCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2016
- Wood v. Dow Chemical Co.District Court, E.D. Michigan · 2014