TRO In Trade Secrets Dispute Denied; Case To Proceed To Arbitration

Mealey's (February 25, 2019, 1:54 PM EST) -- BOSTON — In a one-page order on remand from the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a federal judge in Massachusetts on Feb. 22 denied an information and technology-based health service business’s motion for temporary restraining order (TRO) and granted the plaintiff’s former employee’s motion to compel arbitration in a trade secrets misappropriation lawsuit (Optum Inc., et al. v. David William Smith, No. 19-10101, D. Mass.)....