Mississippi Business Journal » Ed Peters http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 19:39:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Eaton says material was not intentionally withheld in legal fight http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/10/eaton-material-not-intentionally-withheld/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eaton-material-not-intentionally-withheld http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/10/eaton-material-not-intentionally-withheld/#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2012 06:01:26 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=58287 Eaton Corp. officials agree on one thing: The newly discovered emails that discussed former Hinds County District Attorney and former circuit judge Bobby DeLaughter were found on a former company lawyer’s computer. Why they weren’t found years ago is where the stories diverge. The new emails were particularly important, because discovery fights have been common [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/10/eaton-material-not-intentionally-withheld/feed/ 0 Indictments against former Eaton engineers dropped http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/31/indictments-against-former-eaton-engineers-dropped/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indictments-against-former-eaton-engineers-dropped http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/31/indictments-against-former-eaton-engineers-dropped/#comments Thu, 31 May 2012 12:25:12 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=57845 JACKSON — Federal prosecutors in Mississippi have dropped criminal cases against five aerospace engineers who had been accused of stealing trade secrets. Senior U.S. District Judge William Barbour dismissed indictments against the men Wednesday. The charges of taking trade secrets from Eaton Corp. when they left to go to work for what is now called [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/31/indictments-against-former-eaton-engineers-dropped/feed/ 0 Bill seeks to add clarity to existing Trade Secrets Act http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/23/bill-seeks-to-add-clarity-to-existing-trade-secrets-act/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bill-seeks-to-add-clarity-to-existing-trade-secrets-act http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/23/bill-seeks-to-add-clarity-to-existing-trade-secrets-act/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:00:49 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=35986 As part of his business reform legislation bundle, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is proposing some additional language to the Uniform Trade Secrets Act in the hopes of expanding protections for businesses in the event they find themselves in litigation in which some or all of their trade secrets are publicly exposed. “We have been [...]

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