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SEC releases first full-year report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program: no speedy recoveries for whistleblowers

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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USA
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November 16 2012

On November 15, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission released its Fiscal Year 2012 Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program, the first full-year report issued since the enactment of Dodd-Frank

Federal court decisions permit two Dodd-Frank whistleblower cases to proceed

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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USA
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October 11 2012

Two federal district courts recently issued decisions adopting a broad interpretation of the anti-retaliation provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) and allowed Dodd-Frank whistleblower claims to proceed past motions to dismiss

SEC pays first ever Dodd-Frank whistleblower bounty award

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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USA
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August 22 2012

On August 21, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has awarded its first whistleblower bounty, just over one year after the SEC’s Dodd-Frank whistleblower rules became effective

Dodd-Frank anti-retaliation provision does not apply extraterritorially

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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USA
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July 18 2012

On June 28, 2012, a Texas District Court held that the Dodd-Frank's anti-retaliation provision per se does not apply extraterritorially

SEC's Office of the Whistleblower begins processing tips: what companies should do now

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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USA
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September 20 2011

Sean McKessy, Chief of the SEC's Office of the Whistleblower, and Mark Cahn, General Counsel for the SEC, recently outlined the Office of the Whistleblower's activities and priorities in public remarks

California wage-and-hour suit over employee trading policies pre-empted by federal law

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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USA
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May 31 2011

In the past year, several class action lawsuits have been filed in California claiming that employee trading policies of broker-dealers, which require employees to generally maintain their personal brokerage accounts in-house, violates a California law that prohibits employers from forcing employees to patronize the employer

Sweeping new whistleblower incentives and protections in financial reform bill

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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USA
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July 21 2010

On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

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Firm Name - Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Jurisdiction - USA
Workarea - Employment & Labor
Workarea - Capital Markets
Author - Mike Delikat