Opti-Copy, Inc. v. Dalpe

I. BACKGROUND

The individual defendants in this case are former employees of the plaintiff. They left the plaintiff to work for the defendant, Graphics LXCorp. (“GLXj. Plaintiff claimed in this action that the individual defendants and GLX were engaging in unfair competition and a variety of related acts. After the action started, defendants asserted a series of counterclaims, including a claim that plaintiffs commencement of this action itself amounted to an abuse of process and, ás a result, a violation of G.L.c. 93A.

After trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of defendants on all of…