(June 13, 2018, 9:06 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A plaintiff in a Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) whistleblower lawsuit waived his challenge to a federal district court’s ruling excluding certain evidence supporting his claim that he was improperly terminated under SOX’s anti-retaliation provisions because he failed to properly address the court’s legal reasoning for excluding the evidence in his opening brief on appeal, defendants argue in a June 4 appellee brief filed in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Gordon Scott Stroh v. Saturna Capital Corp., et al., No. 17-35607, 9th Cir.)....