May 06, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing LLC has asked a North Carolina federal court to let it add allegations to its suit against a rival NASCAR team, to prove that its employee was hired away specifically to bring its trade secrets with him.
April 24, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing LLC succeeded in blocking former competition director Christopher Gabehart from using or disclosing its trade secrets, after a North Carolina federal court found the NASCAR team was likely to prevail on its misappropriation and contract breach claims against him.
April 21, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing LLC's bid to set a November trial date in a trade secrets suit against former competition director Chris Gabehart and rival team Spire Motorsports is "aggressive and unrealistic," Gabehart has argued in asking to instead push the trial to May 2027.
April 09, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing LLC's efforts to subpoena cellphone providers for deleted text messages is a "desperate" ploy to dig up proof its trade secrets were stolen when there is no evidence to suggest that is the case, the NASCAR team's former competition director said.
April 02, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing LLC has asked a federal judge for permission to access cellphone records that would unearth purportedly erased communications between its former competition director and the owner of a rival team that hired him, with the Gibbs team expressing urgency to preserve the messages as crucial evidence in the trade secrets case.
March 26, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing LLC on Thursday pushed to enjoin rival NASCAR team Spire Motorsports from using confidential race data allegedly stolen by its former competition director, even as Spire denied having the information and decried the accusations as unfounded.
March 16, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing LLC's former competition director has one week to turn over communications and documents about his hiring and onboarding at a rival NASCAR team after a North Carolina federal judge on Monday granted the super team's bid for expedited discovery in their ongoing trade secrets battle.
March 02, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing LLC's former competition director can keep his job at rival NASCAR team Spire Motorsports but can't do any work that overlaps with his old duties, a North Carolina federal judge ruled Monday in partially granting the super team's bid for a temporary restraining order.
February 27, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge on Friday gave Joe Gibbs Racing and its former competition director the weekend to try to work out an agreement on whether he can continue working for a rival NASCAR team, saying the parties can return Monday for a ruling if no resolution is reached.
February 26, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing's former competition director on Wednesday denied absconding with trade secrets on his way out the door and urged a North Carolina federal judge to reject the NASCAR giant's request to stop him from working for a rival, arguing this would "effectively exile me from this profession."