The Monterey County Herald
A Monterey-based interpretation and translation company has won a preliminary injunction against two men accused of taking confidential information to another company.
Language Line Services filed the suit against Patrick Curtin and William Schwartz, who worked for the company in Buffalo, N.Y.
Curtin, who was with Language Line from August 2007 to August 2008, later worked for Philadelphia-based Language Services Associates. The suit accuses Curtin of recruiting Schwartz away from Language Line in February of this year, and says Schwartz brought trade secrets and customer lists with him. Both men live in Buffalo.
The injunction, signed by federal Judge James Ware in San Jose, prohibits the defendants from using or disseminating information at issue in the suit. The judge also appointed a special master to oversee the case.
Language Line has more than 5,000 employees worldwide, with annual sales of more than $300 million.
Month: July 2010
Obama Gets it Right in Arizona
By Louis Provenzano
Language Line Services, LLC
As posted on The Huffington Post
As the Democrats begin to worry about the potential impact on fall elections of the Obama administration’s lawsuit against the Arizona immigration law, this is no time to back off. Decisive action and leadership from the top is a must in a country whose racial and ethnic makeup is evolving quicker than policymakers seem capable of thoughtfully and appropriately legislating.
Distraught and looking for someone to blame for illegal immigration, the public opinion poll numbers are at first glance anti-lawsuit. According to a Pew Research Center poll, 59 percent of respondents approve of the Arizona law. Another poll released Monday by TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence (TIPP) finds that although 51 percent of Americans support the law, the numbers swing drastically the other direction primarily among the people most likely to be impacted by it — Hispanics and blacks, with 61 percent instead approving of the suit. The overall numbers are skewed by white respondents unlikely to be targeted or disenfranchised by the law with just 30 percent supporting the suit.
Right now, the suit claims only that Arizona pre-empted federal authority to police the border. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is already talking about additional legal action if the Justice Department determines the law condones racial profiling and is used to target Hispanics.
Of course the law targets Hispanics. The most stringent immigration law in the country requires anyone suspected of being in the country illegally to carry with them and produce a green card or other proof of citizenship, such as a passport or Arizona driver’s license. Whites simply aren’t going to be stopped because of the law. The problems arise for Hispanics and other minorities here legally. They may even have been born here. They risk being stopped, questioned, harassed, even arrested if they don’t produce papers other Americans aren’t required to carry.
The Justice Department argues the law would divert federal and local law enforcement officers by making them focus on people who may not have committed crimes and has asked for a court injunction to prevent the law from taking effect on July 29. Signed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on April 23, the law makes it a crime to be an illegal immigrant in the state and requires officers to determine the immigration status of people they stop for another offense.
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