A U.S. appeals court has tossed the retaliation claims brought against Morgan Stanley Asia by the investment bank’s former lawyer, solidifying previous court decisions that a federal whistleblower protection law does not apply to overseas employees of U.S.-based companies.
In a unanimous ruling (pdf) released Tuesday, a three-judge penal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said they won’t review the case of Christopher Garvey, a U.S. citizen who had been working in Hong Kong as the top attorney for the Asian subsidiary of Morgan Stanley between 2006 and 2016.
