Lawson Products, Inc. v. Chromate Industrial Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that using wrongfully obtained confidential information shows bad faith
• finding that the plaintiff adequately alleged “intentional interference” by alleging that the defendant sent plaintiff's former salespeople to “convert” plaintiff's customers to the defendant
• declining to dismiss ITSA claim in part because the court could not evaluate whether the plaintiff exerted reasonable effort to protect its information until after more facts were developed
• “The loss of these customers constitutes harm. The complaint need not provide specific names of customers or amount of business lost.”
• court recognizes that using wrongfully obtained confidential information constitutes a showing of bad faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).