The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has revived a trade secrets lawsuit filed by one military contractor against another, alleging corporate misdeeds that cost millions of dollars in lost business.

The decision reverses U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Presnell of the Middle District of Florida, who tossed Advantor Systems of Florida’s lawsuit against DRS Technical Services Inc. of Maryland. Presnell called Advantor’s claims “utterly baseless” and “absurd.” After oral arguments in December at the Eleventh Circuit, Judge Julie Carnes took a different view, joined by Judge Charles Wilson and U.S. District Court Judge C. Ashley Royal of the Middle District of Georgia, substituting.

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