Mealey's (March 6, 2018, 3:13 PM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — Plaintiffs have shown that amendment of a complaint in a misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuit to add allegations of continued trade secret misappropriation and to add a defendant is warranted because the additional allegations and defendant will support their claims in a lawsuit that is in the early stages of litigation, a federal judge in Missouri ruled March 2 in granting the plaintiffs’ motion for leave to amend (Roeslein & Associates Inc., et al. v. Thomas Elgin, et al., No. 17-1351, E.D. Mo., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34000)....