Panel Affirms District Court Judgment, Rulings In Trade Secrets Dispute

Mealey's (August 8, 2018, 1:41 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A federal district court committed no reversible error in denying a party’s adverse spoliation of evidence inference jury instruction in a computer fraud and trade secret misappropriation lawsuit because the court clearly stated to the parties before and after trial that the jury must determine whether spoliation had occurred, a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled July 30 in affirming the district court’s judgment and several orders (Lexpath Technologies Holdings Inc. v. Brian Welch, et al., No. 17-2604, 3rd Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 21034)....