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| filing_id | date ▲ | doc_type | party | description | doc_type_detail | procedural_posture | chain | outcome | phase | filename | relief_requested | full_text |
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| 65 | 2024-01-19 | MJNOV | Kassab | Mtn for JNOV and Disregard Jury Findings | Kassab Defendants' Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict and to Disregard Jury Findings, asserting 10 grounds for JNOV (no trade secret, no misappropriation evidence, limitations, unlawful acts doctrine, privilege to disclose, grievance immunity, judicial proceedings privilege, attorney immunity, unrecoverable damages, no causation), plus arguments that conspiracy is preempted by TUTSA and exemplary damages are improper due to non-unanimous Q17 finding | Post-judgment motion filed January 19, 2024, 28 days after entry of the Final Judgment on December 22, 2023. Kassab seeks JNOV on all claims or alternatively on exemplary damages and conspiracy claim. Filed simultaneously with Motion for New Trial. | POST-1 | N/A | Phase 5 | 2024-01-19_MJNOV_Kassab-Mtn-for-JNOV-and-Disregard-Jury-Findings_FILED.pdf | Judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of Kassab on all claims (take-nothing judgment), or alternatively: (1) JNOV on exemplary damages due to non-unanimous Q17 finding; (2) JNOV on conspiracy claim as preempted by TUTSA, eliminating joint and several liability; (3) disregard of jury findings | 1/19/2024 3:31 PM Marilyn Burgess - District Clerk Harris County Envelope No. 83597613 By: Rhonda Momon Filed: 1/19/2024 3:31 PM CAUSE NO. 2018-58419 MICHAEL A. POHL, et al. § IN THE DISTRICT COURT V. § OF HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS SCOTT FAVRE, et al. § 281st JUDICIALk DISTRICT THE KASSAB DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR JUDGMCENT NOT WITHSTANDING THE VERDICT AND TO DISREGARD JURY FINDINGS Defendants, Lance Christopher Kassab and Lance Chtristopher Kassab, P.C. d/b/a The Kassab Law Firm (“Kassab”), files this Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict and to Disregard Jurey Findings and would show as follows. u SUMMARY Pohl’s claims against Kassab are abarred as a matter of law. Therefor the Court should disregard the findings of the jury and enter a judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of Kassab for aney one of the following reasons: 1. Pohl’s claims are ba rrfed as a matter of law because the information at issue is not a trade secret: • not Pohl’s trade secret because he does not own the information at issue; l • not Piohl’s (or anyone’s) trade secret because the information at issue dooes not have any independent economic value from not being generally known; • not Pohl’s (or anyone’s) trade secret because he made no reasonable measures to keep the subject information secret. 2. Pohl’s claims fail as a matter of law because there is no evidence that Kassab engaged in regular or willful misappropriation; specifically, there is no evidence that Kassab knew the information was Pohl’s trade secret or had been acquired by improper means. The jury’s finding that those associated with Precision, did not misappropriate anything precludes liability against Kassab. k 3. Pohl’s claims are barred by limitations because they accruedC, if at all, in the summer of 2014 when Precision engaged in the first acts of alleged misappropriation, or at the latest in the spring ofi 2015, when both Precision and Favre engaged in additional acts of alleged misappropriation. 4. Pohl’s claims are barred by the unlawful acts doctrine bec… |
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