October 26, 2023
The owner of a steel dust recycling company doesn't owe his competitors any damages despite violating a noncompetition agreement first executed in 2009, a Houston federal jury found Thursday.
October 19, 2023
A businessman accused of contacting steel mills several years before a noncompetition agreement with an internationally operating steel dust recycling company expired told a Houston jury Thursday that it was within his right to access previous contracts because the documents were created long before he agreed to several noncompete covenants.
October 18, 2023
The businessman on the receiving end of a trade secrets lawsuit brought by a group of internationally operating steel dust recycling companies was contacting the entities' competitors for potential business deals three years before they say a noncompetition agreement expired, a Houston federal jury heard Wednesday.
October 17, 2023
Counsel for a former employee of an international steel dust recycling company told a Houston jury in federal court Tuesday that two noncompete agreements between them were either overly broad or not enforceable, at one point prompting the company's CEO to say he'd have to confer with his lawyers about whether he still wanted to pursue one of the claims in the $100 million dispute.