Legal Opinion
Lawson v. FMR LLC
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 4, 2014No. 12-3PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
*432 To safeguard investors in public companies and restore trust in the financial markets following the collapse of Enron Corporation, Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 116 Stat. 745 . See S.Rep. No. 107-146, pp. 2-11 (2002). A provision of the Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1514A, protects whistleblowers. Section 1514A, at the time here relevant, instructed:
"No [public] company ..., or any officer, employee, contractor, subcontractor, or agent of such company, may discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, or in any other manner discriminate against an employee in the terms and conditions…
Also in this document: Concurring in the judgment; Dissent.
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