Miss. Supreme Court halts Eaton-Frisby aerospace lawsuit

The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to halt and rule on an attorney-client privilege claim within litigation reports of a 9-year accusation-filled Eaton Corp-Frisby Aerospace trade-secrets trial. The trial was to have started Nov. 4. The case involves former Eaton engineers allegedly stealing thousands of pages of proprietary aerospace-parts data and providing them to Frisby. The Mississippi high court is considering whether the reports can be declassified and whether the information in it implicates Eaton officials with knowing one of its outside attorneys tried to influence the initial Mississippi trial judge in 2004.The scheduled Nov. 4 court case in Hinds County, Miss., was a counter-claim by Frisby that the initial Eaton lawsuit’s purpose was to disrupt the North Carolina firm’s $1 billion contract with Boeing. Source: Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer, Nov. 5, 2013.