The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Case summary: An employee H worked for the company M. He also kept seeking employment with other companies in his home town and availed many medical leaves. After one of those medical leaves, he returned to gather private data of the company M and was detained at the airport on a random search.
To e xplain :The circumstances under which the employee H could have avoided his prosecution for theft of trade secrets.
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