In 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was passed in response to the Enron and WorldCom scandals, offering broad protections for whistleblowers at public companies in order to encourage fraud reporting. Private companies were considered immune to the law.
But in 2014 the Supreme Court heard a challenge to SOX, and ruled that even though the plaintiffs were not employees of the publicly traded company, the SOX whistleblower statute applied to them. The reason? They suffered retaliation for reporting alleged fraud involving financial reporting of a publicly-traded company.
Here’s what the law now says:
SOX covers employees of a public company’s private contractors and subcontractors.
SOX covers privately-owned companies if they provide services for publicly-traded ones. Answer:
Explanation:
Answer: True
Explanation:
Every defendant has the right proof his or her innocence in the court of law supported by necessary evidences, and witnesses. The court of law is also designated to provide defendant own lawyer when the person is not able to hire one. No defendant can give false statement against oneself. Until all facts related to the case are not clear and they do not go against the defendant till then the defendant is innocent in the court of law.
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Which of the following is correct?
Merry buys stocks for $3,000 and sells them
a year and a half later for $7,000.
Merry has to pay short-term capital
gains taxes on $3,000.
Merry has to pay long-term capital
gains taxes on $4,000.
Merry has to pay long-term capital
gains taxes on $7,000.
CLOSE
The correct answer is B: accompanying inmates to and from court.