IMED Corp. v. Systems Engineering Assoc.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama certified the following questions of law to us:

"1. Can defendant Jan Lewis be held liable under the provisions of § 8-27-3, Code of Alabama 1975, or common law, for continued uses or disclosures of a trade secret, after notice of alleged appropriation, if Jan Lewis first disclosed or used the trade secret of plaintiff(s), which allegedly had been misappropriated by a third person from whom Lewis learned the trade secret, before Lewis knew or should have known that the information used or disclosed was a trade secret and…