United States Fifth Circuit

In a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower complaint against petitioners' employer alleging that it retaliated against them for engaging in protected activity, created a hostile work environment, and then terminated them through inclusion in a company-wide reduction-in-force, dismissal of petitioners' complaint is affirmed where petitioners did not engage in protected activity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/22/2008
• Published 01/23/2008

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and DeMOSS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William H. Reinhardt, Jr. (argued), Law Offices of William H. Reinhardt, Jr., Metairie, LA, for Petitioners., Rebecca G. Gottsegen (argued), Jones Walker, Houston, TX, for Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Theresa Schneider Fromm (argued), Paula W. Coleman, Steven Jay Mandel, Paul L. Frieden, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Benefits Review Bd., Washington, DC, for Respondent.