Legal Opinion
Ruesch International, Inc. v. Mac-Cormack
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 21, 1995PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, III, J.), entered on or about May 22, 1995, which denied plaintiff’s motion to preliminarily enjoin defendant, its former employee, from utilizing allegedly confidential client information, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The customer information that defendant took with him when he left plaintiff’s employ but then returned when accused by plaintiff of illegal removal appears to be readily ascertainable from publicly available services and otherwise unqualified for trade secret protection (see, U. S. Reins. Corp. v Humphreys, 205 AD2d…
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