A federal appeals court has overturned two men’s sentences for stealing trade secrets from the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and remanded the case, questioning the leniency of the punishment.
In a combined February 4 ruling in U.S. v. Howley and U.S. v. Roberts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the convictions of Clark Roberts and Sean Howley for seven counts of stealing trade secrets and three counts of wire fraud following December 2010 verdicts in the Eastern District of Tennessee.
