( November 24, 2025, 1:35 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 21 affirmed a lower court’s award of $168,454,749 in compensatory and exemplary damages but vacated and remanded a permanent injunction in a dispute over the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets to develop a software platform by a technology consulting company, finding that requiring the technology consulting company to pay costs related to the software development while preventing it from using the software resulted in an overlap of the remedies which the lower court needs to address on remand....