Krawiec v. Manly

Justice BEASLEY dissenting.

I dissent from the majority opinion to specifically highlight the problematic and muddled standards for North Carolina plaintiffs seeking to properly plead a claim for misappropriation of trade secrets. In this case this Court considered whether plaintiffs' description *553of their trade secrets as "original ideas and concepts for dance productions, marketing strategies and tactics, as well as student, client and customer lists and their contact information" was sufficient to put defendants on notice of trade secrets allegedly misappropriated. I believe that a complaint…