BURBANK GREASE SERVICES, LLC v. SOKOLOWSKI

No. 2004AP468.

717 N.W.2d 781 (2006)

2006 WI 103

BURBANK GREASE SERVICES, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant-Petitioner, v. Larry SOKOLOWSKI and United Grease LLC and United Liquid Waste Recycling, Inc., Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 13, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-appellant-petitioner there were briefs by Michael L. Hermes and Metzler and Hager, S.C., Green Bay, and oral argument by David J. Sisson.

For the defendant-respondent Larry Sokolowski there was a brief by Stephen J. Eisenberg, Pam M. Baumgartner, and Eisenberg Law Offices, S.C., Madison, and oral argument by Stephen J. Eisenberg.

For the defendants-respondents United Grease LLC and United Liquid Waste Recycling, Inc., there was a brief by David E. McFarlane, Mark H.T. Fuhrman, Sheila M. Sullivan, and Bell, Gierhart & Moore, S.C., Madison, and oral argument by Mark H.T. Fuhrman.


¶ 1 PATIENCE DRAKE ROGGENSACK, J.

This case requires us to determine whether the trade secret statute, Wis. Stat. § 134.90 (2003-04),1 precludes all civil law remedies based on the misappropriation of confidential information that falls outside of the statutory definition of a trade secret. We also determine whether Wis. Stat. § 943.70(2) criminalizes the subsequent misappropriation of confidential information when the information...

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