In Re JDS Uniphase Corp. Securities Litigation

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• holding that plaintiffs questions to former employees bound by confidentiality agreement must be limited to those submitted to and approved by the court
• holding that, even where a court order is sought to permit former employees of defendants to speak voluntarily to plaintiffs’ counsel, subsequent interviews of the former employees were not necessarily “discovery”
• holding that, even where a court order is sought to permit former employees of defendants to speak voluntarily to plaintiffs’ counsel, subsequent interviews of the former employees were not necessarily “discovery”
• noting that Congress “has indicated a public policy in favor of whistleblowers in securities cases”
• finding that it would violate public policy to enforce confidentiality agreements that would prevent former employees from assisting in securities fraud investigation
• noting agreement with Chambers that employers “cannot use their confidentiality agreements to chill former employees from voluntarily participating in legitimate investigations into alleged wrongdoing....”

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