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January 25th, 2007 @ 6:06 pm ET…

Ordering the courts

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A hallmark of U.S. culture: Everybody’s entitled to their own opinion. Like the gentleman who wrote us the other day to complain that the Orlando Magic weren’t giving guard J.J. Redick enough playing time, and could we please do something about it. Sir, we’re sorry, but we only bought rights to the name that goes on the Orlando arena, not the names of who gets to play in it.

Another hallmark, one we’re less enthused by: Unlike other parts of the world, pretty much anybody in the U.S. can take anybody else to court at any time, for any reason. Played fairly, that’s healthy for a democracy. But there has also emerged a class of lawyers who take lightning-strike-odds longshots at corporations, hoping to strike it rich, or, more likely, be paid to go away. That’s how we classify a new California lawsuit that makes a bunch of inflated claims about how we do business. In the US we look and say, “Ah. The trial lawyers are at it again.” If you’re outside the U.S., you might not understand that the steamy language is practically campy — but it is.

We’ll do fine in court. At least as well as J.J. Redick.

Filed by: Corporate Communications

Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Amway Arena, Miscellaneous, Quixtar

5 Responses to “Ordering the courts”

  1. IBOFightback Says:
    January 25th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    Personally I think the odds of being struck by lightning are higher. I read the lawsuit and it’s got such obviously incorrect claimed “facts” that you wonder if the lawyers involved did any research at all - apart from perhaps reading the deceptive websites of a few well known Amway/Quixtar critics.

    Unfortunately, these lawyers aren’t the only ones who didn’t do any homework. RealTid, a news site in Sweden, took it all as true, with a headline that translates as “Class Action against Pyramid Game Company”. They supported it all with an interview with that well known non-expert and anti-mlm fanatic Robert FitzPatrick as if he actually knew what he was talking about. RealTid undertook so much serious journalism that they even claimed the lawsuit was against “Quixstar” for several days, only correcting it when it was pointed out in their website comments.

    Of course, poor IBOs in Sweden will have to deal with prospects reading and believing this rubbish.
  2. IBOFightback Says:
    January 25th, 2007 at 7:20 pm

    slight error - the called it “Quickstar”
  3. Michael Zak Says:
    January 26th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    Thank you for an interesting article, which we linked to at http://blog.nam.org/archives/business_blog_r. Please add www.ShopFloor.org to your blogroll.

    Cheers,
  4. J. Michael Brown Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    I’ve been an IBO for almost ten years and proud of it. But I’m also a trial lawyer and proud of that. I’ve spent the last thirty seven years representing the victims of negligent and drunk drivers, victims of defective products, victims of abusive police misconduct (I was also a deputy district attorney and a police officer so I know police abuse when I see it) and victims of elder abuse. I belong to trial lawyer organizations that oppose and fight against frivolous lawsuits that hurt us all. Of course the Alticor family of companies must fight groundless law suits and preserve our business but please don’t blame it on the trial lawyers. The lawyers that filed this suit are no more typical of the many trial lawyers that work hard to protect victims of wrongdoing than Woodward, Brady and their bunch are typical of the many Quixtar and Amway IBO’s that work hard to build their businesses and play by the rules.

    J. Michael Brown
  5. Tex Says:
    October 4th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    J #4,

    Do you honestly believe “…Woodward, Brady and their bunch are typical of the many Quixtar and Amway IBO’s that work hard to build their businesses and play by the rules”?

    Haven’t you read the termination letters?

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