Appellate Panel Overturns Preliminary Injunction In Trade Secrets Dispute

(February 6, 2019, 1:29 PM EST) -- SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A Fourth District Illinois Appellate Court panel on Feb. 1 ruled that a state trial court abused its discretion in granting a corn refiner’s motion for preliminary injunction in a trade secrets misappropriation and breach of contract lawsuit because it improperly applied the doctrine of inevitable disclosure to find that the plaintiff had shown a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of its trade secret misappropriation claim (Archer Daniels Midland Co. v. Lane D. Sinele, et al., No. 4-18-0714, Ill. App., 4th Dist.)....

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