Sears Hometown Sues Former Employees, Competitor For DTSA, ITSA Violations

(April 1, 2019, 2:19 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Sears Hometown and Outlets Stores Inc. (SHOS) sued three former employees and a transportation and logistics services provider in Illinois federal court on March 27, alleging that the defendants engaged in a scheme to misappropriate SHOS’s trade secrets in an effort to develop a competing business to sell refurbished appliances in violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and Illinois Trade Secrets Act (ITSA) (Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Inc. v. XPO Logistics Inc., et al., No. 19-2158, N.D. Ill.)....

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