Judge Denies Quixtar's Contempt Charges Against TEAM

The legal battle continues on between one of the most popular multi-level marketing businesses and its former training consultants. This time the law was in favor of the trainers. Judge Sullivan of Kent County, Texas ruled on Tuesday that TEAM, the leadership training company who once worked for Quixtar, was not in contempt of a restraining order issued back in late August.

Quixtar felt that TEAM violated certain terms of that restraining order and filed a complaint on September 21. The accusation stated that TEAM is now a competing company which is in violation of the original contract that has been conducting movements in violation of the restraining order. They have since then sued 30 of the bloggers.

TEAM (which stands for Together Everyone Achieves More) is headed by Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady. Quixtar is a multi-level marketing company that provides products for independent business owners (IBOs) to sell. TEAM argued that they found some of Quixtar's business practices unethical and bordering against breaking the law and wanted their contract terminated. TEAM separated from Quixtar, a subsidiary of Alticor Inc., and sought to remove the "no compete" clause from their original contract. The "no compete" clause prevents TEAM from setting up their own distribution business; this is central to TEAM's demands, but Quixtar refused to let that part of the contract be voided. TEAM went on to file several restraining orders in courts across the country, including Texas.