Rahul Chaturvedi v. Bridge Over Corporation, et al.

Whether the Supremacy Clause and the Defend Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. § 18350d)) preempt state court orders that compel the public disclosure of fed­ erally protected trade secrets as a condition of assert­ ing a defense, thereby nullifying the mandatory pro­ cedural safeguards Congress prescribed?

Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause by imposing an unconstitutional condition that forces a litigant to choose between (a) forfeiting feder­ ally protected trade secret rights as the price of de­ fending property interests, or (b) facing punitive sanc­ tions, including incarceration, by conditioning liberty on payment of funds the litigant is. legally barred from accessing and that the same court has found the liti­ gant lacks the ability to pay?