Reed Construction Data Inc. v. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• dismissing RICO claim where plaintiff “failed to allege that [corporation], the ‘person’ named as Defendant, is distinct from the alleged ‘enterprise’ ”
• denying motion to dismiss because defendant’s use of stolen information to compete with plaintiff “spr[a]ng from circumstances extraneous to” nondisclosure agreement, and violated a legal duty independent of the agreement – namely, “the duty not to misappropriate the property of another”
• a claim for misappropriation of confidential information “must spring from circumstances extraneous to, and not constituting elements of, the contract”
• “However, there is no requirement that the ‘regular affairs’ described in Riverwoods be limited to lawful conduct or conduct officially sanctioned by the corporation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).