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MURRAY v. UBS SECURITIES, LLC, ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

No. 22–660. Argued October 10, 2023—Decided February 8, 2024 Congress enacted the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to prohibit publicly traded companies from retaliating against employees who report what they reasonably believe to be in- stances of criminal fraud or securities law violations. Title 18 U. S. C. §1514A(a) specifically provides that employers may not “discharge, de- mote, suspend, threaten, harass, or in any other manner discriminate against an employee in the t