Apple, Google, Microsoft Ordered To Preserve Data In Tesla Trade Secrets Suit

Mealey's (June 28, 2018, 2:03 PM EDT) -- LAS VEGAS — A federal magistrate judge in Nevada on June 25 granted an emergency motion for authorization to issue document preservation subpoenas to Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC, requiring them to preserve information pertaining to email and cloud storage accounts for a former employee of Tesla Inc. who is alleged to have stolen the company’s confidential and trade secret information in violation of state and federal trade secret misappropriation laws and has threatened to spoliate evidence (Tesla Inc. v. Martin Tripp, No. 18-1088, D. Nev., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106678)....