In the latest front in Utah's ongoing cookie wars, a federal judge has refused to issue a preliminary injunction that one side claimed would have effectively put them out of business.
U.S. District Court Judge Howard Nielson Jr. rejected Crumbl's demand for a preliminary injunction which sought to block rival Dirty Dough from any opening new stores pending the litigation. Dirty Dough claimed it would have spelled financial doom for them.
Crumbl has accused Dirty Dough of stealing some of its company secrets, including cookie recipes and internal documents that they improperly obtained through a former Crumbl employee, who is also the brother of one of Dirty Dough's founders. In a court hearing FOX 13 News attended in May, Dirty Dough denied wrongdoing and accused Crumbl of trying to run them out of business. Crumbl and Dirty Dough's CEOs took the stand in sometimes tense questioning.
Crumbl wanted Dirty Dough to make a public statement about the alleged theft of trade secrets and delay any opening of new stores. The judge rejected both requests, finding that the move could indeed force Dirty Dough out of business and noted that its CEO Bennett Maxwell has a First Amendment right against compelled speech.
"The evidence certainly suggests, however, that Bennett Maxwell knew or had reason to know that the Crumbl information uploaded to Dirty Dough’s Google Drive or shared directly with Dirty Dough employees 'was acquired through improper means'— which, again, include 'breach of a duty to maintain secrecy'—or 'from or through a person who owed a duty to the person seeking relief to maintain the secrecy of the trade secret or limit the use of the trade secret,'"...
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