ATTIA v. GOOGLE LLC

No. 19-15771.

983 F.3d 420 (2020)

Eli ATTIA; Eli Attia Architect PC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GOOGLE LLC; Flux Factory, Inc.; Larry Page; Sergey Brin; Sebastian Thrun; Eric Teller, aka Astro Teller; Michelle Kaufmann; Jennifer Carlile; Augusto Roman; Nicholas Chim, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 16, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Floyd and Jeffrey W. Chen , Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, Georgia; Professor G. Robert Blakey Emeritus , Notre Dame Law School, Paradise Valley, Arizona; James W. Christian , Christian Smith & Jewell, Houston, Texas; Eric W. Buether , Beuther Joe & Carpenter LLC, Dallas, Texas; Jamie L. Dupree , Futterman Dupree Dodd Croley, San Francisco, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Charles Tait Graves (argued), Shelby Pasarell Tsai , and Joshua A. Baskin , Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C., San Francisco, California; David H. Kramer , Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C., Palo Alto, California; for Defendants-Appellees Google LLC, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Sebastian Thrun, and Eric Teller.

Robert Kent (argued) and Karen I. Boyd , Turner Boyd LLP, Redwood City, California, for Defendants-Appellees Flux Factory, Inc.; Michelle Kaufmann; Jennifer Carlile; Augusto Roman; and Nicholas Chim.

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, A. Wallace Tashima, and Bridget S. Bade, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

In addition to state law claims, Plaintiffs Eli Attia and his firm Eli Attia Architect PC (collectively, Attia) asserted federal claims pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) against Defendants Google, LLC, Larry Page, Sergey...

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