There’s finally some good news for Sanford Wadler, the general counsel fired from Bio-Rad Laboratories in 2013. In May, Wadler filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming he was a retaliated against as a whistleblower, according to our affiliate publication The Recorder. The GC, who was with the company for more than two decades, claims he alerted the leadership about potential evidence of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations in China, but that it blocked his investigations.
Now, according to Martha Neil of the ABA Journal, a federal judge has ruled that Wadler can name the company’s directors as individual defendants in his suit. “The defense had argued that directors could not be named as defendants because the statute didn’t expressly say that a plaintiff could do so,” explains Neil. But the judge said allowing the directors to be named was in line with Congress’ intent when enacting the Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley acts.
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