Legal Opinion
Optum, Inc. v. Smith
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided February 11, 2019No. C.A. No. 19-10101-MLWPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLF, D.J.
*128After hearings on January 30 and 31, 2019, for the reasons explained in a February 5, 2019 Memorandum and Order (Docket No. 48), the court found that it had the authority before compelling arbitration to decide plaintiffs' Optum, Inc. and Optum Services, Inc.'s ("Optum") motion for a temporary restraining order ("TRO"). If granted, the TRO would prohibit Optum's former employee, defendant David Smith, from working for up to 28 days, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(b) (2), at a recently established company known as "ABC," to protect Optum's trade secrets until an arbitrator could be selected…
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