Morgan Stanley DW Inc. v. Rothe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “customer lists of a financial-services firm deserve trade-secret status” under District of 19 Columbia law
• holding that \customer lists of a financial-services firm deserve trade-secret status\ under District of Columbia law
• finding that plaintiff would be irreparably harmed absent temporary restraining order enjoining defendants from using its proprietary information
• reasoning that “[i]f clients begin to feel that their personal information is not safe with the plaintiff, this development might well lead to a loss of trust and goodwill”
• finding irreparable injury where a Morgan Stanley employee left for a competitor, taking confidential client information and using it to convince those clients to switch companies
• granting injunctive relief and finding that “the court serves the public interest in protecting trade-secret client lists and other confidential information”

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