Northwest Bec-Corp. v. Home Living Service

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• holding a party is not entitled to attorney fees pursuant to I.C. § 12-120(3) for tortious interference with contract claim
• holding a party has no right to attorney fees under section 12-120(3) for tortious interference with contract
• explaining that it was undisputed the customer list was a trade secret
• explaining that the legislature did not intend the ITSA to be read so broadly that merely hiring a competitor’s employee constitutes acquiring a trade secret because employees will naturally take with them the skills, training and knowledge acquired from previous employment
• noting employees’ “training on maintaining good customer relationships, developing new clients, and serving current clients is not a trade secret”
• affirming summary judgment where specific denials of misappropriation and evidence of independent marketing plan provided credible alternative explanations for movement of approximately ninety customers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).