(March 9, 2023, 1:44 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Supreme Court review of a Second Circuit U.S. Court Appeals ruling in a whistleblower’s lawsuit stemming from his alleged firing for reporting allegations of fraud against shareholders is necessary because the Second Circuit’s ruling has widened a split among the circuits as to a whistleblower’s burden of proof in cases brought pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), two U.S. senators and a nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest organization argue in a brief filed in the Supreme Court as amici curiae in support of the whistleblower....