Legal Opinion
Innovation Ventures, LLC v. Custom Nutrition Labs., LLC
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 20, 2018No. 17-1911PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge.
Some years ago, Plaintiff Innovation Ventures (Innovation), manufacturer of 5-Hour Energy, settled a lawsuit with the now-defunct Custom Nutrition Laboratories (Custom Nutrition) by entering into a noncompete agreement. When Nutrition Science Laboratories (NSL) subsequently purchased Custom Nutrition's assets, it did not abide by the restrictive covenants in that noncompete agreement. Innovation initially sued Custom Nutrition; NSL; and Alan Jones, an officer of both Custom Nutrition and NSL, and later added a suit against a related company, Lily of the Desert…
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