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Cisco Can Arbitrate Ex-Workers Claims In Trade Secrets Fight
Law360 (February 8, 2021, 8:08 PM EST) A California federal judge overseeing Cisco s trade secret suit against two former workers sent to arbitration the ex-workers counterclaims seeking to invalidate employment contracts they characterized as unenforceable noncompete agreements, finding Monday that the pair s claims aren t spared by an intellectual property-related carveout in the agreements.
U.S. District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton greenlit Cisco s bid to arbitrate the counterclaims of Wilson Chung and James He, who both left Cisco to join rival electronics company Plantronics and are accused by Cisco of downloading or transferring various trade secret documents in violation of their employment agreements.
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Tech Giants Urge 9th Circ. Not To Overturn WhatsApp Ruling
Law360 (December 22, 2020, 12:05 AM EST) Google, Microsoft, Cisco and other tech giants on Monday implored the Ninth Circuit to reject Israeli spyware company NSO Group s sovereign immunity bid, arguing in an amicus brief that allowing private companies to dodge liability for their cyber-surveillance tools ramps up the risks that they fall into the wrong hands.
In July, U.S. District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton denied the surveillance software firm s bid for immunity from WhatsApp s suit, which accuses it of breaching U.S. computer crimes law by using malware to spy on human rights lawyers, journalists and political dissidents on behalf of its government clients. WhatsApp is owned by.
The case against a Pontiac woman charged in the stabbing of her boyfriend has been bound over to Oakland County Circuit Court.
On Thursday, 50th District Judge Ronda Fowlkes Gross said there was probable cause to advance the case against Lakeeda Malone, 36, for the Aug. 15 incident at a home in the 20 block of Collingwood Street in Pontiac. Malone is facing one count each of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder with an alternative charge of felonious assault, and assault with a dangerous weapon.
Malone was arrested the day of the incident after taking her 8-year-old daughter to McLaren-Oakland Hospitalâs emergency room for treatment of a stab wound that she reportedly received while trying to stop her mother during the assault. The boyfriend, age 29, was also treated at the hospital.