Scanwell Freight Express STL, Inc. v. Chan

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a breach of loyalty occurs if one uses confidential information peculiar to his employer’s business and acquired therein
• breaching the duty of loyalty when “the employee goes beyond the mere planning and preparation and actually engages in direct competition, which, by definition, is to gain advantage over a competitor.”
• an employee’s misuse of confidential information peculiar to the employer’s business constitutes a breach of the duty of loyalty
• defining “direct competition” as “to gain advantage over a competitor”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).