By Daniel Wiessner

(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by a former UBS bond strategist to revive a $2.6 million jury award in his lawsuit accusing the Swiss bank of unlawfully firing him for refusing to publish misleading research reports.

The justices turned away whistleblower Trevor Murray’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that the Manhattan jury that decided in favor of him in 2020 had received flawed instructions from the trial judge about the legal standard for proving unlawful retaliation under U.S. law.

The Supreme Court had already issued one ruling in the case. The justices in 2024 reinstated the jury award after it was previously overturned by a lower court, deciding that financial whistleblowers only have to prove unequal treatment, and not tha

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