Holding that Summers exception did not apply where IRS agents detained defendant for eight hours, only permitted him supervised visits to the restroom, restricted him from communicating with others, and required him to ride with the agents to his home and then back to his office
Holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying leave to amend because the “new allegations consist ... [of] facts not necessarily curative of the pleading problems at issue.”
Finding venue proper under 28 U.S.C. § 1391 where a substantial part of the events and omissions underlying the plaintiff's claims occurred in New Jersey
Holding that “quasi-contract cases involve either some direct relationship between the parties or a mistake on the part of the person conferring the benefit” and therefore “ plaintiff is not entitled to employ the legal fiction of quasi-contract to substitute one promisor or debtor for another.”
Holding the district court did not abuse its discretion "in requiring [the party asserting invalidity] to present expert testimony in order to establish invalidity" because the technology was "sufficiently complex to fall beyond the grasp of an ordinary layperson."
Finding a defendant's knowledge that an employee was previously employed by plaintiff and involved with developing plaintiff's trade secrets sufficient evidence to create a material dispute of fact