CheckFree Corp. sued its former vice-president and his new employer, Charles River Systems, for misappropriating CheckFree’s customer list. At the preliminary injunction hearing Judge Stearns ordered that any copies of the list be returned and that Charles River preserve any evidence that might show any misuse of the information on the list.
A recent order refused to go further and denied the injunction to the extent it would have forbade the defendants from transmitting any information contained in the list for any purposes or restrained them from doing business with or initiating contact with the entities on the list. The court found those requests overbroad and unworkable. Judge Stearns was also concerned about the overlap in CheckFree’s customer list and Charles River’s pre-existing customer and prospect lists. He also was dissuaded by the overly aggressive (and somewhat prolix) briefing of the plaintiff’s attorneys.
http://pacer.mad.uscourts.gov/dc/cgi-bin/recentops.pl?filename=stearns/pdf/checkfree.pdf
CheckFree Corp. v. Charles River Systems, Inc., et. al., 10-10350-RGS (D. Mass. Mar. 17, 2010)
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