Metal Lubricants Co. v. Engineered Lubricants Co.

LAY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a district court’s interlocutory judgment, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a) (1), denying relief against defendants for allegedly appropriating plaintiff’s trade secrets, as well as conspiring to leave plaintiff’s employment and entering into unlawful competition in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, (15 U.S.C. § 1). Plaintiff’s applications for preliminary and final injunctions were consolidated and Chief Judge Harper held that the defendants did not wrongfully appropriate any trade secrets and that defendants’ employees did not…