Legal Opinion
E.I. Dupont Denemours & Company, Inc. v. Rolfe Christopher
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 25, 1970No. 28254PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
This is a case of industrial espionage in which an airplane is the cloak and a camera the dagger. The defendants-appellants, Rolfe and Gary Christopher, are photographers in Beaumont, Texas. The Christophers were hired by an unknown third party to take aerial photographs of new construction at the Beaumont plant of E. I. duPont deNemours & Company, Inc. Sixteen photographs of the DuPont facility were taken from the air on March 19, 1969, and these photographs were later developed and delivered to the third party.
DuPont employees apparently noticed the airplane on March…
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