California Court of Appeal

In an appeal from an attorney's fee order issued as a sanction for bringing a trade secret action in bad faith, the order is affirmed where: 1) there was evidence that Plaintiffs had an anticompetitive motive; and 2) the action was brought on a theory of "inevitable disclosure" not recognized by California law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/15/2009
• Published 06/15/2009

Judges

• YEGAN, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Latham & Watkins;  Daniel Scott Schecter, Charles Courtenay, Los Angeles, and Svetlana M. Berman, San Francisco; Bickel Brewer;  William A. Brewer III and James S. Renard, Dallas, TX, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati;  James A. DiBoise and Charles Tait Graves, San Francisco, for Respondents.