( December 17, 2019, 2:04 PM EST) -- CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Plaintiffs in a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against a nonprofit hospital authority and others have sufficiently identified trade secrets that the defendants are alleged to have misappropriated and, although minimally, have sufficiently shown that they took the necessary steps to protect the confidentiality of those trade secrets, a North Carolina judge ruled Dec. 13 (Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants PLLC, et al. v. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, et al., No. 18 CVS 5899, N.C. Super, Mecklenburg Co., 2019 NCBC LEXIS 107)....