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:
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A. Because plagiarism is a crime and contradicts an attorney's moral and ethical code. This takes away all the credibility of the lawyer, shows that he is not able to hold the position, in addition to showing that he acts in criminal activities of high gravity and therefore must be punished immediately and have his profession questioned.
B. The Iowa court referred to other cases involving plagiarism, which is the practice that allows someone else's works and words to be copied without due credit. Cases of plagiarism are very common and the Iowa court must treat everyone with the same severity in order for them to be fought.
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Murder
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No matter what excuse someone may have, or even if the su!cide victim gave the person permission and even confirmed via video-tape or recording, it is still, technically, murder since you were involved in the happening.
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It's the first one because he can send troops to action because He/she is the commander in chief, but it must get approved by congress before he/she does.
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