Mealey's (January 5, 2018, 2:37 PM EST) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A plaintiff in a misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuit has failed to show that a company wrongfully obtained his business plan for improving the automobile-wrecking industry and provided it to another company that knew that the information was improperly obtained, a federal judge in California ruled Jan. 3 in granting the other company’s motion to dismiss (James Carr v. AutoNation Inc., et al., No. 17-1539, E.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. 1869)....