Garvey v. Administrative Review Board

D.C. Circuit Holds that Whistleblower Provision Does Not Apply Extraterritorially

In Garvey v. Administrative Review Board, the D.C. Circuit held that a whistleblower provision in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act did not apply to alleged retaliation against an employee in Hong Kong by a subsidiary of a U.S. investment bank. The opinion carefully applies the Supreme Court’s two-step framework for the presumption against extraterritoriality to the whistleblower…

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UC Davis School of Law
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Cornell Law School
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University of North Carolina School of Law
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Duke University School of Law
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University of Maryland
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UC Davis School of Law
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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
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Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Willamette University College of Law
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