Magistrate Judge Denies Discovery Requests In Trade Secrets Lawsuit

(April 20, 2017, 9:14 AM EDT) -- CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A fertilizer company’s discovery requests in a subpoena of the owner of a competitor in a misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuit seek irrelevant information and create an undue burden on the owner, a federal magistrate judge in Iowa ruled April 17 in granting the owner’s motion to quash (Nachurs Alpine Solutions Corp., f/k/a Na-Churs Plant Food Co., v. Nutra-Flo Co., et al., No. 15-4015, N.D. Iowa, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58094)....