{"id":11046,"date":"2026-06-26T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/u-s-supreme-court-holds-that-dodd-frank-acts-whistleblower-provisions-cover-persons-who-report-concerns-to-the-sec-not-those-who-exclusively-report-internally\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:00:49","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-holds-that-dodd-frank-acts-whistleblower-provisions-cover-persons-who-report-concerns-to-the-sec-not-those-who-exclusively-report-internally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/u-s-supreme-court-holds-that-dodd-frank-acts-whistleblower-provisions-cover-persons-who-report-concerns-to-the-sec-not-those-who-exclusively-report-internally\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court Holds That Dodd-Frank Act\u2019s Whistleblower Provisions Cover Persons Who Report Concerns to the SEC, Not Those Who Exclusively Report Internally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"contentSummaryCollapse\" style=\"--intro-p-height: 10.3125rem;\">\n<div class=\"inner-collapse\">\n                        In <em>Digital Realty Trust, Inc. <\/em>v. <em>Somers<\/em> (Feb. 21, 2018), the Supreme Court held that the Dodd-Frank Act\u2019s anti-retaliation provision provides a private cause of action only for persons who report suspected wrongdoing directly to the SEC, and not for persons who report exclusively to their employers internally. As a result of this decision, individuals who do not report to the SEC may not bring claims under Dodd-Frank; however, they may well have claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which explicitly protects individuals who report concerns internally from retaliation for having done so.<\/p>\n<p>Read our client memo on the decision.\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers (Feb. 21, 2018), the Supreme Court held that the Dodd-Frank Act\u2019s anti-retaliation provision provides a private cause of action only for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7681,2066,143,3241,8173,8182,1876,8183,7856,7417,1351,762,533,272,997],"class_list":["post-11046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-acts","tag-concerns","tag-court","tag-cover","tag-doddfrank","tag-exclusively","tag-holds","tag-internally","tag-persons","tag-provisions","tag-report","tag-sec","tag-supreme","tag-u-s","tag-whistleblower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}