Supreme Court strikes portion of SOX, preserves whistleblower protections
June 28, 2010 - Comments Off
On June 28, 2010, the SOX whistleblower provisions survived a potential – if indirect – threat. In Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, 561 U.S. — (2010), the Supreme Court struck down a portion of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, holding that the members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) were unconstitutionally [...]