Case: Individual Employment Rights/Retaliation (C.D. Cal.)

A California federal district court partially denied summary judgment to Pacific Coast Energy Company, LP on a retaliation claim under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act brought by a production engineer who reported suspected securities fraud including falsified well counts and misclassified reserves, finding triable issues of fact existed regarding whether his whistleblowing activity contributed to his termination and whether the company’s stated reason for termination was pretextual.

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