(July 20, 2018, 9:18 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A divided Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel erred in affirming damages awards for trade secret misappropriation because a federal bankruptcy court considered insufficient evidence in adopting the damages awards based on a lost-asset theory, a petitioner argues in a June 29 petition for a writ of certiorari filed in the U.S. Supreme Court (Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al., No. 18-25, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 2439)....