American Airlines, Inc. v. Imhof

MEMORANDUM OPINION

LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.

Charles F. Imhof, who was the senior-ranking employee of the New York Sales Division of American Airlines, Inc. (“American”), recently left to join Delta Airlines, Inc. (“Delta”) in a comparable position. While at American, he had access to — and, in preparation for leaving, took copies of some — information that American contends constitutes trade secrets and, in any case, is both confidential and competitively sensitive. American now claims that he effectively should be barred from assuming his new position with Delta, at least for some…