Kennedy v. Gulf Coast Cancer & Diagnostic Center at Southeast, Inc.

OPINION

JANE BLAND, Justice.

This interlocutory appeal from a temporary injunction concerns whether Kirk Kennedy, a former in-house counsel and corporate secretary for Gulf Coast Cancer & Diagnostic Center at Southeast, Inc. (Gulf Coast), is entitled to retain, for his own use, a copy of a legal opinion memorandum concerning Gulf Coast’s potential liability for its former executive’s alleged misconduct. Kennedy solicited the memo while still working for Gulf Coast but obtained a copy of it after Gulf Coast had terminated his employment.

After learning that Kennedy was distributing the sensitive…