State, Federal Trade Secret Misappropriation Claims Survive Motion To Dismiss

Mealey's (August 31, 2018, 1:50 PM EDT) -- FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida on Aug. 28 ruled that a provider and developer of information technology systems for monitoring compliance with the federal government’s 340B drug pricing program has sufficiently pleaded the elements of its state and federal trade secret misappropriation claims against CVS Health and others, but found that several of the plaintiff’s other state law claims are preempted by the Florida Uniform Trade Secrets Act (FUTSA) (Sentry Data Systems Inc. v. CVS Health, et al., No. 18-60257, S.D. Fla., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 147359)....