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Employment Litigation Roundup: April 2024

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Employer sues former traders for using an allegedly confidential trading strategy but loses bid for emergency injunctive relief. On April 12, Jane Street Group LLC (“Jane Street”) sued two of its former traders and...more

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Can You Get a Court to Stop Someone from Sharing Customer/Client Lists?

Can you get a court to stop someone from sharing customer/client lists in Arkansas? As explained in this blog post, it depends. But often the question is debatable and hiring an attorney experienced in unfair competition...more

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Hiring Company’s Remedial Measures Protect Against a Threatened Temporary Restraining Order

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In June 2023, a federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois denied Aon Corp.’s request for a temporary restraining order against Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. and nine former Aon employees after they allegedly...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The Impact of COVID-19-Related Factors on Courts’ Enforcement of Employee Post-Employment Restrictive Covenants

In the best of economic times, some courts can be reluctant to grant immediate injunctive relief and enjoin an employee from working in order to enforce employee post-employment restrictive covenants. Now that we are in the...more

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Blockchain Week in Review - May 2019 #3

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U.S. Developments - Regulatory Updates - SEC Files Enforcement Action Against Alleged Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Pyramid Scheme - On May 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed a complaint in the U.S....more

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Injunctive Relief Denied in Trade Secret Theft Case - Identifying Combination Trade Secrets Require Sufficient Details Describing...

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Chief Judge Frank P. Geraci, of the Western District of New York, recently denied a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction sought by irth Solutions, LLC (irth Solutions) to protect the "unique combination"...more

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Accounts Frozen: DOJ Alleges Seven Defendants Conspired To Misappropriate Trade Secrets

Competition from Chinese companies shows no signs of slowing. Likewise, allegations of trade secret theft against Chinese companies are increasingly common. In this case, the U.S. Department of Justice linked allegations of...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

“It’s a Free Country, Right?” Court Declines to Enjoin Ex-Free Country Ltd. Employees From Contacting Customers on Purloined...

Within days of each other, your clothing company?Free Country Ltd.?loses two employees who decamp to a rival to set up a competing apparel line. You discover that just before leaving, they transferred some 50,000 documents...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Industrial Espionage and the Defend Trade Secrets Act

American corporations are facing an ever increasing threat of misappropriation of their valuable trade secrets through industrial espionage, defined as the theft of a company’s trade secrets by an actor intending to convert...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

California Employment Law Notes - July 2016

Employer Is Entitled To Recover $4 Million In Attorney's Fees From EEOC - CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. EEOC, 578 U.S. ___, 136 S. Ct. 1642 (2016) - The EEOC filed suit against CRST (a trucking company) alleging...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

District Court Judge Issues TRO and Preliminary Injunction Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act

In some of the first decisions under the newly enacted Defend Trade Secrets Act, on June 10 and 22, 2016, United States District Judge Jon S. Tigar granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in Henry...more

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Protecting Company Relationships and Information Upon an Employee Departure

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Learn how your company can prepare to act quickly and strategically to protect important relationships, information and trade secrets at the time that a key employee leaves. This webinar will review the latest developments in...more

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Texas Anti-SLAPP Law: The Expanding Scope of the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act – Part 3

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The basics of the Texas Anti-SLAPP law In part three we are going to deep dive into a specific case that has garnered a lot of attention-Schlumberger v. Rutherford which is currently on appeal to the Houston Court of...more

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