whistleblower-award

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A827 John A. Amster, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-22 Application administrative-interpretation dodd-frank enforcement-action objective-standard sec-regulations whistleblower-award 1. This case presents an important question regarding whether the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is entitled to reinterpret its own regulati…
24-1233 John M. Barr, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-discretion due-process regulatory-standard retroactive-application whistleblower-award Whether an agency can deny a whistleblower award by applying a new regulatory standard retroactively, after the whistleblower's claim has fully mature…
24A727 John M. Barr, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure agency-delay retroactive-guidance sec-interpretation statutory-guidance whistleblower-award Question not identified.
24-715 Thomas Shands v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2025-01-03 Denied Response Waived internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court whistleblower-award I. Whether the IRS can deprive the United States Tax Court of subject matter jurisdiction to review the IRS's denial of a mandatory whistleblower awar…
23A899 Manoranjan Rao v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2024-04-09 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process enforcement-action sec-investigation whistleblower-award Question not identified.
23-413 Michael Lissack v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2023-10-19 GVR Relisted (2) administrative-action administrative-law agency-discretion chevron-deference discretion internal-revenue-service statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-whistleblower whistleblower-award Section 7623 of Title 26 governs the Internal Revenue Service's (hereinafter the "IRS") ability to pay awards to whistleblowers. Prior to 2006, awards…
23-5680 Daniel Villa v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action direct-evidence due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 whistleblower whistleblower-award Section 704 of the Administrative Procedure Act subject's final agency actions to mandatory judicial review if no other adequate remedy exists in any …
22-963 John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-action criminal-conduct criminal-violation dodd-frank enforcement-action judicial-action pleaded-guilty sec-interpretation sentencing whistleblower whistleblower-award In denying a whistleblower award to Petitioner, the SEC interpreted key provisions of the statutory whistleblower program created by Congress in the D…
22-185 Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2022-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award 1. Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Pro…
20-1652 Meghan Belaski, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived confidential-information double-jeopardy fifth-amendment intellectual-property related-action securities-exchange-commission securities-law takings-clause whistleblower whistleblower-award Do the statutory rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in order to qualify for whistleblower award, violate the Double Jeopardy Clause in t…