Public Systems, Inc. v. Towry

The parties present us with several issues concerning the Alabama Trade Secrets Act, Ala. Code 1975, § 8-27-1 et seq.: (1) whether the customer lists and spreadsheet software data program developed by the plaintiff were trade secrets as defined by the Trade Secrets Act; (2) whether the defendants could be restricted by the Trade Secrets Act or otherwise from interfering with existing contract relationships of the plaintiff because the two parties did not enter into a covenant not to compete; (3) whether the defendants could be restricted by the Trade Secrets Act from contacting clients…