John Scott Bechtel, United States Department of Labor, Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee v. Competitive Technologies, Inc., Docket No. 05-2404-Cv

The questions before us are (1) whether, under the whistleblower provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, when the Department of Labor (“Department”) finds sufficient cause to order that an employee be reinstated but the employer flouts this order, we have jurisdiction to enforce the order; and, if so, (2) whether, in this case, the procedure followed by the Department in finding sufficient cause and ordering reinstatement constituted due process. The District Court answered *484both questions in the affirmative, and ordered Competitive Technologies, Inc. (“CTI”) to reinstate Bechtel…