CACIQUE, INC. v. ROBERT REISER & CO., INC.

No. 98-55967.

169 F.3d 619 (1999)

CACIQUE, INC., a California Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ROBERT REISER & COMPANY, INC., a Massachusetts Corporation, Defendant-Appellant. Juan Marquez; Marquez Brothers International, Inc., Third Parties-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 2, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Z. Schwartz, Claire Laporte, Vickie L. Henry, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Massachusetts, Mark H. Epstein, Munger Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellant.

Robert Broadbelt, Allan Browne, Browne & Woods, Beverly Hills, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Robert C. Danneskiold, Ferrari, Olsen, Ottoboni & Bebb, San Jose, California, David I. Gindler, Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the third-party-appellants.

Before: LAY, GOODWIN, and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges.


GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

This interlocutory appeal from a civil contempt order tests the ability of a plaintiff to discover a competitor's financial data in an action against a third party for allegedly furnishing the plaintiff's trade secret to the competitor. This action is brought against only the party that allegedly disclosed the trade secret, not the competitor who has been held in contempt. The theory of the complaint apparently is that California's version...

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