JPMorgan Chase Funding Inc. v. Cohan

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Manuel J. Mendez, J.), entered March 25, 2015, which, among other things, denied plaintiff’s motion for a protective order, unanimously modified, on the law, to grant the motion solely as to any tax returns produced, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff, a subsidiary of defendant’s former employer, failed to show that, other than the tax returns, the requested documents, regarding a partnership and investments made by the partnership, contain trade secrets (see Mann v Cooper Tire Co., 33 AD3d 24, 30-31 [1st Dept 2006], lv denied 7 NY3d 718…