United States Ninth Circuit

In an action under the whistleblower-protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for wrongful discharge, summary judgment for Defendants is reversed, where Plaintiffs' statements management reported conduct that definitively and specifically related to shareholder fraud.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/12/2009
• Decided 08/13/2009
• Published 08/13/2009

Judges

• BYBEE, Circuit Judge:, Before:  J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Margo Piscevich (argued), Mark J. Lenz, Piscevich & Fenner, Reno, NV, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard G. Campbell Jr. (argued), Lance P. Maiss, Armstrong Teasdale LLP, Reno, NV, Gordon E. Krischer, Nathaniel L. Dilger, Mark W. Robertson, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.