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151420P.pdf 03/15/2016 Loftness Specialized Farm v. Terry Twiestmeyer
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-1420
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Wollman and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Contracts. For the court's prior opinion in the matter, see
Loftness Specialized Farm Equipment, Inc. v. Twiestmeyer, 742 F.3d 845
(8th Cir. 2015), where the court reversed and remanded the district
court's order granting plaintiff summary judgment on defendants'
ccounterclaim for breach of a non-disclosure agreement. On remand, the
court again granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, and this
order is reversed and remanded. There was genuine issue of material fact
regarding defendants' claim that plaintiff had breached the non-disclosure
agreement by disclosing confidential information when it agreed to have a
third party sell its grain-bagging equipment; defendants' counterclaim
sufficiently pleaded the issue that plaintiff had breached the agreement
by using the information for its own benefit while the agreement was in
effect.