Mealey's ( August 6, 2020, 2:19 PM EDT) -- BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland on Aug. 3 ruled that a group of businesses in the retail jewelry industry has failed to plead that a former employee violated state or federal trade secret laws by failing to turn over files that the group alleges contained confidential business information because the group has not shown that the information he possessed constituted trade secrets under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) or the Maryland Uniform Trade Secrets Act (MUTSA) (Albert S. Smyth Co., et al. v. Mark A. Motes, et al., No. 17-677, D. Md., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 138631)....