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A Look Back on the Retroactivity of New York’s Amended Whistleblower Protection Law

In an excellent column in these pages, Nicholas J. Pappas and Elena Mondi dis- cussed recent developments, including statutory amendment in 2021 (effective January 26, 2022) (2021 Amendment), toNew York Labor Law Section 740, New York’s Whistleblower Law, and noted that courts were divided on the issue of whether the statute applied retroactively.

Recent Developments Under New York’s Amended Whistleblower Protection Law, New York Law Journal, Aug. 7, 2024. Since that col- umn, New York state and federal courts have engaged in a spirited debate of this issue, with still no consensus having emerged. We write today to discuss these recent decisions.
 
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Jonathan Trafimow, Partner
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