In a unanimous decision Thursday, the Mississippi Supreme Court refused Eaton Corp’s request for reinstating a trades-secret lawsuit against Frisby Aerospace. Eaton had sued Frisby and six of EC’s former engineers for taking alleged company secrets to the North Carolina-based firm in 2004. The justices’ upheld the Hinds County Circuit Court’s previous ruling that Eaton sanctioned communications between one of its lawyers and the initial judge overseeing that lawsuit. Hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts were on the line between the two rival companies vying for aerospace parts contracts for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. A countersuit claims Eaton sued to destabilize Frisby will now continue in Jackson, Miss. Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov. 21, 2013.
[Central Mississippi/Golden Triangle Note: Eaton’s Jackson, Miss., facility operates one of the most advanced aircraft hydraulic test laboratories in the world.]
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