We will sue Walmart, and we prevail.
Our firm has a proven record of taking on our nation’s largest retailer and winning. Although we are very selective in the cases we bring, once we file the lawsuit we do not stop without a resolution.
Walmart v. Cuker Interactive, LLC. W.D. Ark. No. 5:14-cv-5262-TLB.
After two weeks of a jury trial in federal court in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a unanimous jury returned a $12.4 million dollar verdict in favor of our client, Cuker Interactive, LLC on claims of misappropriation of trade secrets and computer coding know-how. Several witnesses testified Walmart's employee secretly downloaded computer code while at Cuker's headquarters without authority and later sent much of Cuker's trade secrets to various locations across the globe for use in training programs. The jury took less than one full day to return a verdict finding Walmart's behavior constituted "willful and malicious" trade secret misappropriation. In this federal lawsuit, the judge repeatedly sanctioned Walmart for its egregious conduct and described Walmart as thus: “Suffice it to say that on the whole, and in cumulative effect, Walmart’s litigation practices in this case have been the most vexatious, oppressive, and abusive ever to have occurred in any case before the undersigned in this Court.” See Cuker v. Walmart, Doc. 524 Filed 3/31/2018. As a result, the Court imposed an additional sanction of $400,299 upon Walmart at the conclusion of the case. The case was reduced to $3.3 million following the jury verdict, and on appeal, the reduced award was paid by Walmart to Cuker Interactive, LLC.
Webb v. Walmart, Inc. Benton County Circuit Court, 04-CV-20-2218.
In this lawsuit, we represented a prolific inventor who agreed to assign his inventions to Walmart on condition they pay him. Except they did not make full payment. The case was filed in the Circuit Court of Benton County, Bentonville, Arkansas, which is Walmart’s headquarters. Our client asked a judge to return his inventions.
Coming into this case, our firm alerted the Circuit Court in Benton County to Walmart’s past bad discovery conduct in the Cuker case. We asked for and received judicial oversight and periodic discovery hearings. Over the next year, sadly, Walmart proved it did not learn its lesson from the Cuker case.