The Democratic National Committee recently filed a lawsuit
against Russia, WikiLeaks, the Trump Campaign, and a bunch of
individuals (including Julian Assange, Jared Kushner, and a hacker
named "Guccifer 2.0") that includes claims of trade
secret violations. The April 20 lawsuit alleges an alphabet soup
of claims—CFAA, SCA, DMCA, RICO, among others—mostly
based on the premise that Russian operatives successfully hacked
the DNC's computers, stole politically sensitive information,
and then destabilized the American political system in conjunction
with the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks.
The two trade secret claims in the lawsuit include a claim that
Russia, Guccifer 2.0, WikiLeaks and Assange violated the Defend
Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), 18 U.S.C. § 1836 et seq., and that
all defendants—including the Trump Campaign, Jared Kushner,
and Donald Trump, Jr.—violated the Washington D.C. Uniform
Trade Secrets Act, D.C. Code Ann §§ 36-401 –
46-410.
