Fired UBS Strategist Rejected by Supreme Court on Whistleblowing

The US Supreme Court refused to revive a $900,000 jury verdict won by a former UBS Group AG research strategist who claimed he was fired for not skewing his reports to help the company’s business strategies.

Making no comment, the justices on Monday left intact an appeals court decision that said the jury instructions made it too easy for Trevor Murray to win on claims that UBS retaliated against him in violation of a federal investor-protection law.

Murray won a round in the fight last year, when the Supreme Court ruled that the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act doesn’t require whistleblowers to ...