Hauck Manufacturing Co. v. Astec Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs tortious interference with contract claim survived to the extent that it did not rely on allegations that defendant misappropriated plaintiff’s trade secrets
• holding that claim of civil conspiracy in which “overriding object ... was to disseminate Plaintiffs confidential and proprietary information” was preempted, as with “all general tort claims for theft of secret information”
• “If the information is a trade secret, the plaintiff’s claim is preempted; if not, the plaintiff has no legal interest upon which to base his or her claim.”
• “If the information is a trade secret, the plaintiff’s claim is preempted; if not, the plaintiff has no legal interest upon which to base his or her claim. Either way, the claim is not cognizable.”
• finding preemption of unjust enrichment claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).