Mealey's (September 20, 2017, 2:56 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Illinois’ trade secrets law preempts a company’s claims for tortious interference with business relationships and/or expectancy with its customers, unfair competition and civil conspiracy claims against its direct competitor in the global transportation and logistics industries as far as those claims rely on the misappropriation of confidential information, a federal judge in Illinois ruled Sept. 18 in granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss (XPO Logistics Inc. v. Best Dedicated Solutions LLC, et al., No. 17-1946, N.D. Ill., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 151317)....