TREVOR MURRAY, PETITIONER v. UBS SECURITIES, LLC, ET AL., 601 U.S. 23

Summary

HOLDINGS: [1]-A former employee of a securities firm was erroneously required to prove retaliatory intent in order to establish a whistleblowing claim under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 U.S.C.S. § 1514A(a). The employee bore the burden under 49 U.S.C.S. § 42121(b)(2)(B)(i) to prove that his protected activity was a contributing factor in the unfavorable personnel action alleged in the complaint, but he was not required to make some further showing that the firm acted with retaliatory intent.