Charter Settles Trade Secret Claims vs. Its ex-State BEAD Funding Director

Charter Communications reached a settlement in principle of its misappropriation of trade secret claims against Bridger Mahlum, its former director-state government affairs, said the parties’ joint report and notice Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-01106) in U.S. District Court for Connecticut in New Haven. The parties ask that all deadlines be vacated, and that they be permitted to consummate and execute a written settlement agreement within the next 14 days, said the joint report, which didn’t disclose the settlement terms. Charter had sought injunctive relief against Mahlum to prevent him from going to work for BroadbandMT, a direct competitor, and from spilling Charter’s state broadband, equity, access and deployment program trade secrets with his new employer (see 2308210001).