Legal Opinion
Veeco Instruments, Inc. v. Candido
New York Supreme Court
Decided June 30, 1972PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBertram Harnett, J.
On December 24,1970, Joseph Candido, a computer programmer employed by Veeco Instruments, Inc., was fired. Shortly afterwards, Candido took home with him certain company program materials on which he exclusively was working and threw out some, r Veeco brings this action for compensatory and punitive damages resulting from Candido’s claimed conversion of the corporate data processing information.
Candido was in charge of some 250 operational programs used in Veeco’s current activities. Each program is a list of instructions to a computer prepared by a programmer. Before being used, the list…
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