News & Commentary on Financial Regulatory and Compliance Matters
On Monday, June 26, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review whether the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) prohibits retaliation against internal whistleblowers or only covers individuals who report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
This question has divided practitioners and lower courts alike since Dodd-Frank’s passage in 2010. As reported in our…
This week, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, 577 U. S. ___(2016). The key issue addressed is whether class certification was proper in a FLSA case where the methodology used to establish damages was determined by expert sampling and assumptions about how long it would take certain categories…