Teledyne Techs. Inc. v. Shekar, No. 15-2349 (7th Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseTeledyne terminated Shekar’s employment; 10 days later Teledyne sought injunctive relief, alleging that Shekar had accessed or attempted to access Teledyne’s servers, containing confidential information. There was a large data transfer between a Teledyne server and Shekar’s laptop computer on the day he was terminated. Before his termination, Shekar emailed Teledyne’s confidential information to his personal email addresses and saved it on his computers. Shekar refused to return electronic equipment provided by Teledyne for Shekar’s use at home. Teledyne asserted violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Illinois Trade Secrets Act, and the Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The district court issued a temporary restraining order requiring Shekar to return Teledyne’s electronic information and equipment and later granted Teledyne’a preliminary injunction, noting Shekar’s failure to comply with the TRO. The injunction required Shekar to provide “unrestricted access” to all of his devices that were capable of storing electronic information. The court later found Shekar in contempt for not producing several devices, not accounting for Teledyne’s electronic information, and not providing complete and truthful answers to interrogatories. The Seventh Circuit dismissed for lack of jurisdiction over Shekar’s appeal of his motion to vacate the preliminary injunction, which the court characterized as a “belated appeal” of the preliminary injunction. Since Shekar cannot appeal the preliminary injunction, he cannot appeal the contempt order while the underlying litigation remains pending.
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