CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Trade Secret
.........Case Law
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CCP 128.5 sanctions proper against Ps and atty who acted frivolously and in bad faith by disclosing D's declaration, filed under seal but inadvertently placed in public file.

Where P's proper invocation of trade secrets privilege prevents D from examining basis for P's damage claim, court may properly bar P's damage evidence at trial.

Error to order disclosure of formulas privileged as trade secrets; Ps failed to make prima facie particularized showing of need.