Denial Of Preliminary Injunction In Trade Secrets Dispute Affirmed

Mealey's (January 18, 2019, 5:28 PM EST) -- DENVER — A federal district court did not err in ruling that a staffing company for the oil and gas industries failed to show that there was a sufficient probability of irreparable harm from the past misconduct of two of its former employees who were alleged to have misappropriated the company’s trade secrets and used the information to benefit a direct competitor, a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Dec. 28 in affirming (DTC Energy Group Inc. v. Adam Hirschfeld, et al., No. 18-1113, 10th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 36656)....