Former Exxon Mobil Corp. employees lacked standing to seek federal court enforcement of an administrative reinstatement order after the original Labor Department whistleblower proceeding was dismissed, a split Third Circuit ruled Tuesday.

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 2-1 ordered a lower court judge to dismiss as moot a case brought by ex-computational scientists Lindsey Gulden and Damian Burch. They had alleged they were illegally fired in retaliation for leaking information to the Wall Street Journal in 2020 that Exxon may have inflated production estimates and the value of its oil and gas assets in Texas and ...

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