Case: Individual Employment Rights/Trade Secrets (D. Haw.)

A federal district court in Hawaii granted summary judgment to a former sales employee of S&G Labs Hawaii, LLC, a medical laboratory testing facility conducting urinalysis for physicians and other clients, on its trade secret misappropriation and alleged unfair competition claims against him arising from his negotiations with a direct competitor about a possible job. Although the employee talked to the competing drug testing laboratory about potential employment after a unilateral change to his compensation structure, he didn’t disclose confidential information about S&G or its clients. He never caused S&G to suffer any harm or damages and some of the ...