Securities & Exchange Commission v. Garber

How courts have described this case

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• limiting access where in-house counsel reported directly to vice president involved in competitive decision-making and whose access to confidential information had been restricted
• finding in-house counsel was a competitive decisionmaker “because her advice and counsel necessarily affect licensing decisions . . . [and] she is actively involved in negotiating the terms of licensing agreements as part of settling lawsuits”
• “good intentions are insufficient to prevent inadvertent disclosure of confidential information because it is not possible for counsel to ‘lock-up trade secrets in [her] mind’ ”
• discussing consideration of company’s size in analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).