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McCarter & English, LLP

Who Sins Most? The Tempter or the Tempted?—Court of Chancery Allocates Equal Fault Among Acquirer and Target Officers in Merger...

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In In re Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc. Merger Litigation, C.A. No. 2018-0484-JTL, the Delaware Court of Chancery allocated liability among two sell-side officers and a third-party acquirer under the Delaware Uniform...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Judge Strikes Fiduciary Duty Claims Asserted by FTI Against Former Employees, But Not Aiding and Abetting Claim Asserted by FTI...

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FTI sued three of its former employees who went to work for Berkeley Research Group (Berkeley), an FTI competitor. The former employees, FTI alleged, breached their FTI employment contracts and their fiduciary duty of loyalty...more

Allen Matkins

Court Concludes CUTSA Does Not Preempt Breach Of Fiduciary Duty Claim

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The California Uniform Trade Secrets Act (CUTSA) provides various remedies for misappropriation of a trade secret (as defined). The legislature, however, was "vexingly oblique" in prescribing the effect of CUTSA on common law...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Craft Brewer Failed Attempt to Use Trade Secret Laws to Close the Door on Glassdoor Reviews

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The public's increasing reliance on anonymous product and company reviews posted online often gives rise to complaints by the subjects of those reviews, especially when the reviews are negative or critical, and threaten to...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Popular Insulated Cup Manufacturer In Hot Water Over Alleged Trade Secret Misappropriation

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Tervis Tumbler Company, the maker of the infamous insulated tumblers, has found itself in hot water with a former supplier, Trinity Graphic. ...more

Brooks Pierce

Taking a Walk Back to a Kinder, Gentler Interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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We don’t usually talk about four-year-old court decisions in the first instance here. But the Ninth Circuit has issued a pair of noteworthy opinions interpreting the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the last few weeks. And...more

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