While an alleged whistleblowing employee’s communications need not “definitely and specifically” relate to one of the listed categories or securities violations in Sec. 1514A in order to be protected, an employee must plausibly plead that he reasonably believed the challenged conduct constituted a violation of an enumerated provision, the Second Circuit stated (Nielsen v AECOM Technology Corp, August 8, 2014, Livingston, D). [read post]