Washington, D.C. December 17, 2008. The National Whistleblowers Center and Government Accountability Project filed an amicus brief in support of a whistleblower in a case filed under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.   In this Maryland case, the judge ordered the case back to the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) saying that the de novo hearing provision of SOX was "absurd."  See Blog