Mealey's ( October 3, 2019, 2:07 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 2 said a federal judge erred in ruling that a company failed to sufficiently plead that confidential and proprietary information that a former employee of its exclusive distributor allegedly misappropriated in an attempt to divert customers away from the company and to a rival was, in fact, secret (Continental Industries Group Inc. v. Mehmet Autunitic, No. 18-1239, 2nd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 29576)....