United States v. Bowers

BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Donald Bowers was previously involved in a civil trade secret misappropriation case that was litigated in the United States District Court for the District of Utah. During the course of that litigation, Bowers willfully and repeatedly violated a permanent injunction issued by the district court presiding over the case, and also refused to purge himself of civil contempt. His actions resulted in findings of civil contempt against him, judgments against him for the plaintiffs attorneys’ fees, and, ultimately; a criminal referral to the Unit ed States Attorney…