The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed an amicus brief Thursday stressing that whistleblowers are entitled to the Dodd-Frank Act’s full protection against retaliation whether they report their employers’ wrongdoing internally or go straight to the agency.

In July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit contradicted other courts that have considered the matter and the SEC’s own rules when a panel of judges held that employees are protected against retaliation only if they go to the SEC.

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