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I’ve been fortunate to do well financially in my chosen field; not filthy rich but certainly well off (with some ups and downs along the way). After a particularly large windfall when I was in my late 20’s, I decided it was time to treat myself to a nice luxury car. I had never owned a Mercedes-Benz and decided it was probably time to take a closer look at their offering.One afternoon during the work week, I left my office and went to the largest Mercedes dealership I was aware of in the area, Prestige Motors. This place was a serious, high-end car dealership, looking more like the Ritz Carlton than your local Yugo showroom. As I had no business meetings that day, I was wearing my standard engineer/software programmer uniform; i.e. tee shirt, jeans and sneakers. While I was certainly clean, with working 12-16 hours a day on technology I had little time or patience for worrying about my day-to-day wardrobe.As it was mid-afternoon on a weekday, there were no other customers when I entered the dealership. There was a “receptionist” sitting at a fancy desk facing the door. There were four or five salesmen decked out in Brooks Brothers suits, all working busily at their desks. As I walked in and made eye contact with the woman at the desk, I prepared myself to be embraced by the mystique of Mercedes-Benz. And, with a blank check in my pocket, I was ready to be wowed.To my great surprise, the receptionist took one look at me and immediately broke eye contact, going back to whatever it was she was doing. I spent the next 10 or 15 minutes walking around the completely silent showroom, sitting in cars, checking out sticker prices and looking at brochures while not one employee acknowledged my existence. They didn’t even have the common decency to say a single word to me.After 15 minutes, I gave up, walked out the door, got into my Porsche (which was parked out of view of the main entrance) and drove a few miles north to the local BMW dealer, where I was treated with respect, regardless of my appearance. An hour later I walked out with a deal on a top-of-the-line 740IL.To this day, I’ve never entered another Mercedes-Benz dealership.

A former Apple employee acknowledged in a Steve Jobs biography, that Bill Gates poked around while he was at Apple. He asked really detailed questions and wanted to get information about things he wasn't even involved in. As Steve Jobs encountered the interviewed employee talking with Gates, he yelled at him to shut up.But can you say he stole Steve Jobs idea? No. Bill Gates build a software operating system to sell and license it. His concept was open software. Steve Jobs wanted an end to end consumer experience. If it wasn't for Bill Gates someone else would have build an operating system and license it.

I'm assuming you are asking if your husband can be held liable for taking work product from his former employer- the question is worded oddly.The answer is almost certainly yes. Almost every company has employees acknowledge that the company owns work product created by the employee. By taking it your husband is violating that.Even if he didn't create the documents, if it is considered company property he was not supposed to take it.