apply the more narrow definition of what constitutes a trade secret under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as developed through federal case law when determining if the chemical formulations used in fracking qualify as trade secrets protected under the Wyoming Public Records Act (WPRA), Wyo....
In short, this case addressed whether satisfying the Freedom of Information Act’s (FOIA) exemption for “trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential,” requires a showing of substantial competitive harm. 5 USC § 552(b)(4). As I ...
The Impact of Trade Secrecy on Public Transparencytrade secretsFOIAtransparencyaccountabilityDieboldFederal ReserveBloomberggovernmentdeliberative democracyTrade secret law is fixed at the intersection of government and the private sector. Private businesses are increasingly displacing government in providing and ...
Industry, consumer and patient groups clash over how much trade secret data to release.(FOIA/trade secrets)Reid, Ken
The information gap:"It's absolutely preposterous," said John Sims, a FOIA expert and law professor at the University of the Pacific. "Knowing how many white male sales workers a company has is a trade secret? Absurd." Sims questioned why five companies consider these reports trade secrets,...
Resource Club sued at the CIT for refund of the duties and fees it paid, arguing that it was entitled to a refund under Section 563(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930. This law states that importers may abandon goods in a bonded warehouse to the Government and obtain a refund of import dut...
likely hold over $680 billion face amount of life insurance on their workers, payable to the banks, not the families. We ask their Federal regulator for the details of this life insurance under a Freedom of Information Act request and we’re told the information consti...
The protection of trade secrets not only includes the prohibition of unauthorised access to the content of files containing the trade secret, but also the ... Basic Law, Arts. , ; Trade Secrets Act, Sec. , No. - IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 被引...
that “High-frequency traders, big Wall Street firms and stock exchanges have spent billions to gain an advantage of a millisecond for themselves and their customers, just to get a peek at stock market prices and orders a flash before everyone else, along with the opportunity to act on it....
PROTECTING TRADE SECRETS FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT PART ⅠThe Freedom of Information Act (FOIA or Act), 5 U.S.C.A. 搂 552 of Title 5, was enacted in 1966 to establish a procedure by which private citizens could better evaluate the performance of government ...