Former Salesforce VP's Whistleblower Retaliation Suit Allowed to Proceed, Judge Rules

"Protected activity only needs to implicate 'a reasonable belief' that 'a violation is likely to happen,'" U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley for the District of Massachusetts said. "Given his background and the factual circumstances, Wirth had enough information to sufficiently plead that he reasonably believed a violation of SOX was likely to happen."

September 17, 2024 at 02:15 PM

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Whistleblower Laws

By Riley Brennan

The original version of this story was published on Law.com

A former Salesforce executive can proceed with a whistleblower retaliation suit as he sufficiently established that he was engaged in protected activity when sounding the alarm about the company's purported plans to falsely inform the public that its Genie program operated in real time, a federal judge ruled last week.

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