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Employer illegally seized former employee's LinkedIn account, but employee suffered no provable damages *

USA - April 23 2013
Social media has changed the way that companies and employees connect to clients and customers. As new uses for social networking emerge, legal…

Co-authors: Mathew D. Dudek.


Sanctions imposed for deleted Facebook account *

USA - April 2 2013
A United States Magistrate Judge recently held that a plaintiff had a duty to preserve his Facebook account and that his deletion of it warranted an…


Court enforces Missouri forum selection clause against resident of the Philippines *

USA - January 24 2013
Forum selection clauses are common in non-compete agreements, particularly when the employer is multi-state or multi-national. One question that…


Contractual clause requiring return of confidential information at termination helps former employer obtain injunction on misappropriation claim *

USA - January 3 2013
Trade secret misappropriation cases turn on details. Accordingly, it is always interesting to see the particular details which tilt a court's decision one…


Requested injunction against former flight instructor crashes at take-off *

USA - December 17 2012
A federal judge in Chicago recently wrestled with two issues that we frequently blog about: what constitutes misappropriation of confidential information, and to what extent can a current employee prepare to compete with his employer without breaching his fiduciary duty?


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