Employee To High Court: SOX Whistleblower Case Doesn’t Require Retaliatory Intent

(June 29, 2023, 10:24 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An employee who brings a case against an employer under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s (SOX) whistleblower protection provision must prove only that the protected activity contributed to “the unfavorable personnel action alleged in the complaint” and is not required to prove “retaliatory intent,” a strategist who alleges that he was wrongly fired argues in his petitioner brief in the U.S. Supreme Court....