Murray v. Ubs Securities, LLC (601 U.S. 23)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided February 8, 2024 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 601 U.S. 23 · 144 S. Ct. 445
- Decided
- February 8, 2024
- Term
- October Term 2023
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Sotomayor
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2023 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus 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 terms and conditions of employment be- cause of ” protected whistleblowing activity. In this case, Trevor Mur- ray filed a whistleblower action in District Court alleging that UBS terminated his employment in violation of §1514A. Murray had worked for UBS as a research strategist in a role that required him to certify—in…
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