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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Aug 7 – A company which claims its employees left en masse taking with them confidential and even copyrighted survey information sought an injunction on September 12, 2019 against the use of the contested survey at the "AECAL CEO Summit" in Manhattan starting September 17.

They lost, as Inner City Press reported from the courtroom.

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Ronnie Abrams asked the plaintiffs, EFCG, why they had sat on their hands about the survey until a week before the conference.

  After reflecting on the arguments in her robing room, Judge Abrams emerged to say that she didn't even have to get to likelihood of success on the merits.

 Jump cut to August 7, 2020 - now oral argument on a request for a preliminary injunction, held by telephone due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Inner City Press again covered it.

 This time the tone was more bitter. The defendant's lawyer mocked the plaintiffs', who in turn noted that at least he wasn't shouting. Perhaps he should have - his requested preliminary injunction was denied, for lack of showing of irreparable harm.

 The case is EFCG, Inc. v. AEC Advisors, LLC et al., 19-cv-08076 (RA).

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