Plaintiff sued Defendants alleging misappropriation of its confidential information which they then allegedly used to create a competing transportation company. Court entered agreed order, granting Plaintiff a temporary restraining order, barring Defendants from using, accessing, or distributing its confidential information. Court properly dismissed Plaintiff's petition for indirect criminal contempt and denied its motion to reconsider. Petition failed to set forth allegations specifically and definitely and thus, as a whole, failed to sufficiently inform them of nature of charges against them. Defendants could not expect than action they admitted to in agreed order would later form basis of a contempt charge.(REYES, concurring; GORDON, specially concurring.)
Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Contempt