Partners Jane Accomando and Lincoln Bisbee authored an article for Utility Dive discussing the impact of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Murray v. UBS Securities for employers in the nuclear industry and providing practical steps to minimize potential exposure under the Energy Reorganization Act (ERA).
The authors noted that the Murray decision “is relevant to the nuclear industry because . . . the same whistleblower protection framework utilized by [the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002] — which prohibits retaliation against employees for reporting certain categories of criminal fraud and/or fraud against shareholders — is incorporated into statutes with antiretaliation provisions that protect ‘employees in industries where whistleblowing plays an especially important role in protecting the public welfare,’” including the ERA.