Ruling In Trade Secrets Misappropriation Lawsuit Partially Reconsidered

(January 16, 2018, 1:49 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A plaintiff failed to show that reconsideration of a Louisiana federal judge’s ruling granting summary judgment on a business disparagement claim in a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit was appropriate, but the judge did err in dismissing the plaintiff’s unfair competition claim in its entirety because dismissal was appropriate only as it pertains to the defendant’s alleged misappropriation, the judge ruled Dec. 28 in granting in part and denying in part the plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration (Wright’s Well Control Services LLC v. Oceaneering International Inc., No. 15-1720, E.D. La., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 212313)....