Hecny Transportation, Inc., Cross-Appellee v. George Chu, and Daisy Chu, Platinum International Logistics, Inc., and Wilfredo Jamilosa

How courts have described this case

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• accepting the “dominant view” that “claims are foreclosed only when they rest on the conduct that is said to misappropriate trade secrets”
• “[The ITSA] abolishes claims other than those based on contract arising from misappropriated trade secrets, replacing them with claims under the Act itself.”
• “The dominant view is that claims are foreclosed only when they rest on the conduct that is said to misappropriate trade secrets.”
• allegations based on the misuse of information—excluding trade secrets—may amount to a claim in theft, fraud, or breach of the duty of loyalty
• “Decisions of federal district courts on state law have neither authoritative nor precedential force.”
• “[I]t is unimaginable that someone who steals property, business opportunities, and the labor of the firm’s staff would get a free pass just because none of what he filched is a trade secret.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).