On September 2, 2020, the Fifth Circuit declined to void a fee award of nearly $2.3 million in favor of an employer that had prevailed on its trade secret theft claim against its former employee, because the employee willfully failed to comply with the bankruptcy court’s “extremely explicit” order regarding his objections to the award.
Background
USA, Designs and trade secrets, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Bankruptcy, Stryker Corporation, Fifth Circuit
On February 25, 2020, in Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, No. 18-1269 (U.S. 2020), the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ruled that the so-called “Bob Richards rule” should not be used to determine which member of a group of corporations filing a consolidated federal income tax return is entitled to a federal income tax refund.
USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Income tax, Internal Revenue Service (USA), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (USA), Supreme Court of the United States