Baton Rouge Sign & Graphics, LLC, et al v. Ryan Wilkins, No. 3:2021cv00407 - Document 27 (M.D. La. 2021)

Court Description: ORDER granting 26 Consent Motion for Permanent Restraining Order as stated herein and this Consent Permanent Restraining Order shall remain in full force and effect unless altered by Court Order. Signed by Judge John W. deGravelles on 11/29/2021. (EDC)

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Baton Rouge Sign & Graphics, LLC, et al v. Ryan Wilkins Doc. 27 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA BATON ROUGE SIGN & GRAPHICS, LLC AND JEREMIAH HALFORD ) ) ) Civil Action No. 21-cv-00407-JWD-SDJ Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) ) RYAN WILKINS, ) ) Defendant. ) ______________________________________________________________________________ CONSENT PERMANENT RESTRAINING ORDER ______________________________________________________________________________ Considering the Joint Motion for Entry of a Consent Permanent Restraining Order filed by Plaintiffs, Baton Rouge Sign & Graphics, LLC (“BR Sign”) and Jeremiah “Jeremy” Halford (collectively “Plaintiffs”) and Defendant, Ryan Wilkins (“Wilkins”) and the Parties agreed request for the entry by the Court of the following Consent Permanent Restraining Order: THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that for the purposes of this Consent Permanent Restraining Order, BR Sign’s “Confidential and Proprietary Information” is defined as records or materials in any form (including records, materials, or data compilations electronically, digitally, and/or physically transmitted or stored), which BR Sign kept confidential or otherwise took steps to protect from disclosure outside of its operations, that relate to BR Sign’s business and clients, and their related services and products, including but not limited to: business plans and strategies; business acquisitions, mergers, and sales; business processes; research and development; training 1 Dockets.Justia.com and other operational methods and techniques; quality assurance procedures and standards; manuals, policies, and procedures; business records and files; business proposals, drawings, charts, and graphs; client lists; client information; client source lists; purchasing methods; pricing; distribution and selling plans and activities; consultants’ reports; product information; marketing and other technical data and studies; employment and other personnel data; financial plans and strategies; financial reports and analyses; profits and losses; budgets; projections; cost analyses; price lists; formulae and analyses; proprietary computer software and data; internal correspondence, notes, and memoranda relating to any of the foregoing; and any copies, summaries, images or backups of any of the foregoing. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that: 1. Wilkins and all persons and entities acting in concert with him are permanently restrained, enjoined, and prohibited from using, or permitting use of, for his/their benefit or the benefit of third parties, BR Sign’s trade secrets or other Confidential and Proprietary Information; 2. Wilkins and all persons and entities acting in concert with him are permanently restrained, enjoined, and prohibited from divulging, revealing, discussing, publishing, disseminating, or communicating BR Sign’s trade secrets or other Confidential and Proprietary Information; 3. Wilkins and all persons and entities acting in concert with him are permanently restrained, enjoined, and prohibited from continuing to possess any property, 2 records, materials, and information belonging to BR Sign including BR Sign’s trade secrets or other Confidential and Proprietary Information; a. In order to comply, Wilkins and all persons and entities acting in concert with him have diligently searched for and returned to BR Sign or its counsel any of BR Sign’s property, records, materials, or data in whatever form (whether original, copied, computerized, electronically stored, or handwritten); b. In order to comply, Wilkins has provided all of his devices for forensic and permanent deletion, at his cost, of all property, records, materials, and information that he took from BR Sign including BR Sign’s trade secrets or other Confidential and Proprietary Information, which forensic deletion shall be completed within three weeks of the entry of this Permanent Restraining Order and a certificate of deletion provided to counsel for Plaintiffs; 4. Wilkins is permanently restrained, enjoined, and prohibited from making false factual statements whether written or oral to BR Sign’s customers or other third parties that are defamatory about Jeremy Halford, BR Sign, and BR Sign’s products, services, management, and business practices; 5. Wilkins and all persons and entities acting in concert with him are permanently restrained, enjoined, and prohibited from gaining unauthorized access to BR Sign’s 3 secured computer systems, including its business Google account, its shared cloudbased data storage, and any of BR Sign’s corporate email accounts; and, 6. Wilkins is restrained, enjoined, and prohibited from soliciting, contacting for a business purpose, and/or doing business with any BR Sign customer identified in the listing attached hereto as “BRSign Customer List” for a period of 365 days from the day this Consent Permanent Restraining Order is executed and entered herein by the Court. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that this Consent Permanent Restraining Order shall remain in full force and effect unless altered by Court order. 29th November SIGNED in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on this ________ day of ________________, 2021. S ________________________________ UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 4 Respectfully submitted, BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, PC /s/Elizabeth A. Liner Jennifer L. Anderson (La. Bar No. 23620) Elizabeth A. Liner (La. Bar No. 34429) 450 Laurel Street, 21st Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70801 Telephone: (225) 381-7020 Facsimile: (225) 343-3612 Email: jlanderson@bakerdonelson.com Email: bliner@bakerdonelson.com Counsel for Baton Rouge Sign & Graphics, LLC and Jeremiah Halford -and- RHORER LAW FIRM /s/ S. Bradley Rhorer S. Bradley Rhorer (La. Bar No. 25487) Zachary S. Walker (La. Bar No. 35366) 10566 Airline Highway Baton Rouge, LA 70816 Telephone: (225) 292-2767 Facsimile: (225) 292-2769 bradr@rhorerlaw.com zackw@rhorerlaw.com Counsel for Ryan Wilkins 5 Attachment to Consent Permanent Restraining Order BRSign Customer List 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 1st Heritage Credit 365 Enterprises - Street Kings 629 Men's Grooming 7732 Goodwood Office Building 9round AAA Insurance Travel Abbott Image Solutions Academy Acadiana Center for Natural Health Acadiana Pediatric Dentistry Accent Vision Care Acme Refrigeration Affordable Pharmacy AGI AIPD AJ Dorhman All Pro Mobile Detail All Truck Equipment Alliance Source Testing Allied Sales & Service Allstar Affordable Autos Alpha Customs Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Altered Salon Amazing Chi Ameri-Air, LLC American Cash Advance American Heart Association AMG Anchor Sign, Inc. 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Digital Display Services Dirty Dog Nutrition Doggett Crane Services Doggett Machinery Services Dollar Tree Donaldson Chapel Baptist Church Doug Ashy Building Materials Dr Raborn 3D tooth Dr. Patrick Briese Draft Picks Drug Screening Xpress DSLD Dudley Debosier Dupont Loans Dynamic Health EBRSO Ecogenesis LLC Edible Arrangements Element Baton Rouge Elite Power Sports 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 Elite Wellhead Solutions Elle Boutique Emerald Palace Encounter Church Enterprise Signs Epic Piping Escape Room Essential Mortgage Company Excel Software Professionals Exxon Mobile Pipeline Eye Wander EZ Lock Facilities Maintenance Management Fairlane Farms Fairmont Sign Company Farrell Calhoun Federal Heath Fedex Ferguson First Lady Salon First Octave Piano Studio Fiser Law Firm Fitness Expo Fitness Intervention Flips Fitness Fluke's Seafood Shack Flutter FM Bank Focal Point Eye Care Forever Chic Fox Pest Control Foxglove Francois Cafe & Grill Frank's Restaurant French Quarter Shopping Center 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 9 French Truck Coffee Galvez Commons Game Day Nutrition Gamers Trinity Gaurdian Care Geaux Chevrolet Geaux Express Auto Sales Geaux Fresh Gerry Lane Collision Center Gilbert Dupaty Memorial Park Glen Oaks Middle School Go Auto Insurance Go Physical Therapy Go-Devil Good Wolf Power Yoga Grand Paradise Casino Great River Industries Group Industries Growler USA Guaranty Media Guardian Care -- J R David Creative Gulf South Orthopedics Gulf South Signs Gulfcoast Orthopedics Gulotta's Workwear Outfitters H Kyle Boutique H&R Block Half Time Tire & Oil Hampton Collision Harvest Manor Hazel & Bliss Boutique Hazel & Blues HDC & Associates Healing Place Church Healthy Smiles 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 Healthy U Heirloom Channel letters Heleauxs Grocery Helix Legal Academy Hematology Oncology Clinic Heritage Healthcare of Hammond Herring Stone's Highway Fried Chicken Hoffman/Miller Advertising Home Cut Donuts Hometown Lenders Hospitality America Hugg & Hall Hwy 30 Multi Tenant Sign Hyoco Distribution ID & Associates Identiti Resources ILoveKickboxing IMB Rehab Center Impulsive Delights In Loving Arms Indigo Art Studio Innophos, Inc Innovative Business Suites International Sign Association Interntional Truck Sales Ion Alkaline Water Iphone Isabella Lakes iSIGNS, Inc. 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