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 | Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission can retroactively reinterpret its own whistleblower regulations to deviate from the originally establis… | |
| 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 | Whether a government agency can intentionally delay issuing a legally required decision to circumvent past agency representations and precedents | |
| 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 | Whether the IRS can deprive the United States Tax Court of subject matter jurisdiction by claiming it took no action on a whistleblower award and deny… |
| 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 | Whether the SEC's denial of a whistleblower award based on claimed non-reliance on the whistleblower's tip violates due process when the agency refuse… | |
| 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 | Whether the IRS is required to pay a whistleblower award where the whistleblower's information caused the IRS to open an audit but the IRS ultimately … |
| 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 | Whether Judicial Discretion dissolves in the presence of Direct Evidence, Statutory, and/or Procedural requirements |
| 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 | Does Dodd-Frank's whistleblower award program exclude whistleblowers whose criminal conduct is only tangentially connected to the enforcement action (… |
| 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 | Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Proced… |
| 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 SEC violate the Double Jeopardy Clause and Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment? |