Watch Out, Whistleblowers: Congress and Courts Move to Curtail Leaks

"House Republicans introduced legislation yesterday targeting the already-delayed whistleblower rule [1] in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. The proposed change would require corporate whistleblowers to report problems internally before going to financial regulators. The move, backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is just the latest in a series of setbacks for those who favor strengthening whistleblower rules to encourage reporting of wrongdoing within government and businesses."