When Martinus van Geel resigned from Bosch Security Systems as “a trusted and high-level manager” in its critical communications sector to go to work for Riedel Communications, its “primary competitor,” he took many of Bosch’s trade secrets with him, alleged Bosch’s Defense of Trade Secrets Act complaint Tuesday (docket 0:24-cv-02315) in U.S. District Court for Minnesota. Van Geel’s primary job duty at Bosch “was to plan, develop and execute Bosch’s strategies to compete with, and succeed against, Riedel” on a worldwide basis, said the complaint. In preparation for taking employment with Riedel, van Geel copied “massive amounts of trade secret and highly proprietary Bosch information” to removable storage devices, “in clear violation of the duties he owes Bosch,” it said. Van Geel kept the most proprietary files and information that he worked on only on his company-issued laptop and without putting those materials onto the plaintiff’s servers, it said. Yet when he turned in his company laptop the day after he announced he was leaving Bosch to join Riedel and to compete against the plaintiff, van Geel had apparently deleted all of Bosch’s proprietary files from his laptop, along with most of the contents of his Bosch email account and all information from his company-issued cellphone, it said. When Bosch recently demanded that the defendant return all information and the removable drives he used to copy Bosch’s propriety information, he provided only some of the drives, and from those, he apparently had deleted the sensitive files he had stolen, said the complaint. The plaintiff seeks to enjoin van Geel “from using or benefitting from the information he stole from Bosch,” it said. It also seeks to disgorge him of any compensation he received while in breach of his duties, it said. Bosch also seeks to recover damages caused by van Geel’s improper actions, including the costs of the company’s investigation into his wrongdoing, plus the costs to recover the stolen or deleted information, it said.
Despite Dell's assurances that a data breach of its systems doesn’t pose “significant risk” to those affected because of “limited information impacted,” the breach appears to have been “substantially broader,” alleged a negligence class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-00647) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas.
IRobot’s representations to investors about the probability of regulatory approval of its purchase by Amazon and the “adequacy” of the company’s internal controls “were far from reality,” alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action Saturday (docket 1:24-cv-11498) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.
Spotify customers who bought the company’s Car Thing device are now left with “nothing more than a paperweight,” alleged three customers' class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-04077) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
In the 20 years since John Mansour, founder of National Telecommunications of Florida (NTF), put his money under the management of his brothers, their lawyer and their bankers, the plaintiff’s assets “were used to facilitate money laundering and other unauthorized transactions in the billions of dollars,” alleged a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) complaint Friday (docket 4:24-cv-00459) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Sherman.
The First Amendment “protects a person’s right to view, approach, listen to, and record law enforcement, provided that there is no interference with police activity,” said plaintiff-appellant Donald Nicodemus’ reply brief Monday (docket 24-1099) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in opposition to Indiana’s “buffer law.”
The district court properly denied plaintiff-appellant Donald Nicodemus’ motion for injunctive relief to block Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) from enforcing HB-1186, the state’s “buffer law,” said Rokita’s appellee brief Friday (docket 24-1099) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Centennial Bank began notifying victims of a data breach April 19, “a whole year” after the breach occurred, alleged a negligence class action Friday (docket 4:24-cv-00415) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Arkansas.
Nineteen-year-old Michael Antonetti spends about 12 hours a day playing seven Call of Duty games, plus Fortnite, Minecraft and others, said his videogame addiction complaint Friday (docket 1:24-cv-02019) against more than a dozen videogame hardware and software companies in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta.
Healthcare institutions are “particularly vulnerable" to cyberattacks because of the value of the private information they collect and maintain, but defendant DocGo failed to follow cybersecurity best practices, allowing cuber thieves to gain access to current and former patients’ protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII), alleged a negligence class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-03594) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.