Lexis-Nexis v. Beer

How courts have described this case

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• observing that some business information “is either readily ascertainable or will quickly become obsolete, thereby losing its independent economic value”
• declaring four month old knowledge of corporate business policies and strategies to be of little value and thus not a trade secret
• declaring four month old knowledge of corporate business policies and strategies to be of little value and thus not a trade secret
• declining to award sanctions where, among other things, “the vast majority of the information” on the disk at issue had been preserved on other devices
• stating defendant former employee “either knew or should have known that the Lexis-Nexis material he possessed was relevant to reasonably foreseeable litigation” when he started work at direct competitor a week after leaving plaintiff Lexis-Nexis
• “[G]iven the inherently territorial nature of Beer’s customer contacts, the almost worldwide application of the noncompete agreement makes its geographic scope unreasonably broad.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).