Time-Share Systems, Inc. v. Schmidt

OPINION

NIERENGARTEN, Judge.

Time-Share Systems, Inc. (Time-Share) and Gary Schmidt were engaged in litigation over the ownership and rights to computer software. During the course of litigation the trial court ordered Schmidt to allow Time-Share access to Schmidt’s computer in order to do a file save. 1 Schmidt also was ordered not to delete any data prior to the file save. A file save was done but the trial court found that Schmidt deleted, or allowed to be deleted certain files. The trial court found that Schmidt, his companies, and the officers of his companies had violated the court order…