United States Sixth Circuit

In a dispute between model train distributors, denial of motions for a new trial and grant of an injunction pursuant to a jury verdict and award for plaintiff on claims of misappropriation of trade secrets and unjust enrichment are reversed where: 1) the district court erred in admitting expert testimony and in imposing joint-and-several liability, and the jury award improperly "double count[ed]" plaintiff's damages; and 2) the injunction was based entirely on the jury's verdict.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/14/2006
• Published 12/14/2006

Judges

• Before: DAUGHTREY and COLE, Circuit Judges;  GRAHAM, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Walter E. Dellinger, Jonathan D. Hacker, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Robert A. Swift, Kohn, Swift & Graf, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Walter E. Dellinger, Jonathan D. Hacker, Melissa A. Holyoak, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, D.C., Kathleen McCree Lewis, Joseph H. Hickey, Dante A. Stella, Dykema Gossett, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant.  Robert A. Swift, Robert J. LaRocca, Kohn, Swift & Graf, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Harold Z. Gurewitz, Gurewitz & Raben, Detroit, Michigan, Jeffrey D. Bukowski, Stevens & Lee, Reading, Pennsylvania, for Appellee.