Carlton Group, Ltd. v. Tobin, 2003 WL 21782650, fn. 8 (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2003)

Key Insight: Court granted ex parte application for TRO and related relief in order to locate and recover stolen information, and ordered return of laptops and “bit stream copying” of defendants’ computers to preserve deleted data

Nature of Case: Financial services company sued former employees for conspiring to steal confidential and proprietary information and unfair competition

Electronic Data Involved: Client databases and other proprietary information