Facebook Firing, Whistleblower Rules, Insider Trading? Must Be…

… Wednesday’s JD Supra Buzz. What we learned in law today, FYI:

Fired for Facebook posts? Yes, and the NLRB found it was a lawful termination (FordHarrison) (Miller & Martin) 

Q: What’s the definition of a “whistleblower”? A: It depends on who you ask (Corporate Compliance Report) 

Can the SEC charge someone with insider trading when the alleged victim says no crime occurred? Yep (Morvillo Abramowitz) 

President Obama extended several key immigration programs that were due to expire at the end of September (Sheehan Phinney) 

“Bring your own device” policies continue to dog health care employers (Mintz Levin) 

California lawmakers (and Governor Brown) have been busy. New laws in the state: a student athlete “bill of rights” (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips), a law prohibiting workplace discrimination against breastfeeding women (XpertHR), and a law giving employees new rights to access their own personnel files (Littler) 

The European Commission has set out its cloud computing strategy (Corporate Law Report) 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its five-year strategic plan (Ballard Spahr) (BuckleySandler) 

The fight over the seizure of underwater mortgages by eminent domain continues (Dechert) 

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