Amendments to Whistleblower Protections Expanded Coverage for Relators, not Liability to Company Employees; United States District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division No. 2:17-cv-527-TC, Travis Cella v. MobiChord Inc., et al.

The district court denied in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss claims of fraud and unlawful retaliation, finding that the relator’s concerns about the company’s failure to disclose foreign ownership and its disregard of agency instructions not to send its data outside the US amounted to protected activity.