Ruling Leaves Cloud on Whistleblowers

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): U.S. authorities have reached beyond the country's borders to extract huge settlements from foreign firms like BNP Paribas SA, Total SA and Credit Suisse Group AG. But a new court ruling may mean U.S. law doesn't extend far enough to protect certain whistleblowers who flag such violations.

A federal appeals court last week held that U.S. law can only reach so far into Germany-based Siemens AG's operations, upholding a lower-court ruling dismissing a whistleblower-retaliation claim a former Taiwanese employee brought...

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