Day v. Staples, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “violations of ‘general accounting principles’ ” do not constitute “shareholder fraud” that gives rise to SOX-protected activity
• stating that plaintiffs educational background and level of sophistication are relevant to the subjective component
• affirming summary judgment for the defendant, holding that the plaintiff failed to demonstrate that any of the alleged manipulations of accounting data were material to shareholders
• “[Section] 1514A requires ... an objectively reasonable belief that conduct complained of constituted a violation of the relevant law set out in the statute.”
• Putative whistleblower's \beliefs were not initially reasonable as beliefs in shareholder fraud and they became less reasonable as he was given explanations [by company employees].\
• \The employee must show that his communications to the employer specifically related to one of the laws listed in [Section] 1514A.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).