Mealey's ( April 29, 2019, 12:55 PM EDT) -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge in Missouri on April 24 ruled that an agricultural media company has sufficiently shown that its former employee and a competitor misappropriated its confidential information in violation of state and federal trade secrets law by pleading that the former employee downloaded more than 11,000 files containing the media company’s trade secrets (Farm Journal Inc. v. Gregory Johnson, et al., No. 19-0095, W.D. Mo., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69374)....