Mealey's (November 7, 2017, 2:19 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 6 granted a motion by U.S. Solicitor General Noel C. Francisco to argue pro hac vice and for leave to participate in oral arguments as amicus curiae and for divided argument in an appeal of a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling that a federal district court did not err in using a definition of the term “whistleblower” that was wider than the one established in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank) (Digital Realty Trust Inc. v. Paul Somers, No. 16-1276, U.S. Sup.)....