Mealey's (March 29, 2019, 11:11 AM EDT) -- LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal judge in Kentucky on March 26 ruled that although plaintiffs in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and state and federal trade secret misappropriation lawsuit sufficiently showed that defendants misappropriated a conglomerate of companies’ trade secrets as part of an alleged pass-through scheme, they failed to state claims for aiding and abetting or conspiracy to commit trade secret misappropriation in violation the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and Kentucky law (C-Ville Fabricating Inc. v. Joshua Donald Tarter, et al., No. 18-379, E.D. Ky., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50373)....