WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed skepticism that whistleblowers who report corporate wrongdoing internally instead of to the Securities and Exchange Commission are protected from retaliation under the 2010 Dodd-Frank regulatory-overhaul law. The question stems from a lawsuit filed by a whistleblower, Paul Somers, who says he was fired from Digital Realty Trust Inc. in 2014 after complaining internally about accounting irregularities, among other matters. Mr. Somers argues he was protected by a Dodd-Frank...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 28, 2017 20:48 UTC