What SEC Whistleblowers Should Know About Insider Trading And The Salman Case

What SEC Whistleblowers Should Know About Insider Trading And The Salman Case

By: Shayne C. Stevenson, Head of whistleblower practice, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP

The Supreme Court recently heard argument in Salman v. United States (No. 15-628), a case that may bring some clarity to one highly contested area of insider trading law. Whistleblowers looking to report information on insider trading to the SEC will benefit from a basic understanding of insider trading law leading up to Salman.

Salman v. United States

Prohibitions against insider trading make obvious sense to most of us. There is something intuitively...