Legal Opinion

Gupta v. Cisco Systems, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided December 3, 2001No. 01-1122PublishedCited by 29 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Dev Vrat Gupta is an engineer and former employee of respondent-appellee Cisco Systems, Inc. At issue is the ownership of several million dollars’ worth of stock in Maxcomm Technologies, Inc., a company Gupta founded while employed by Cisco. An arbitrator issued an award upholding Cisco’s right to repurchase the stock, and the District Court for the District of Massachusetts denied Gupta’s motion to vacate the award. We affirm the decisions below.

I. Background

Gupta began working for Cisco in July, 1997. In March, 1998, he founded Max-comm.…

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