The folks over at the Alticor Media Blog have given me permission in the past to fully post information from their blog, so I am going to post the latest Quixtar – Orrin Woodward – TEAM lawsuit update in full as opposed to posting a fair sue portion of the post. 

I said it before and I’ll say it again.  Orrin Woodward, Chris Brady and the TEAM is in over their heads in this deal and because of that these so called leaders are placing the financial future of thousands of TEAM IBO’s at risk. The TEAM IBO’s will blindly follow and listen to the Woodward/Brady spin, but frankly they would be far better off either staying with Quixtar or quietly leaving to find a better company in the industry.

The post serves as an interesting update from the Quixtar/Amway perspective:

We respect perspectives. But they can’t hide facts.

First, the “new” Texas case mentioned in “Spaghetti.”
This was a brand new case, with TEAM as the plaintiffs, attacking from
a whole different angle than they did in California case. Dismissed.

The “other” Texas case.  Simmons et al v. Quixtar will be heard de novo – “from the start” – by a new judge, though the previous judge recommended a preliminary injunction.

The California case. Still waiting.

The Michigan case:  Our preliminary injunction remains in effect, as does the preliminary injunction won by the IBOAI.

The TROs: By our count, TEAM’s class-action spammers filed for 18 restraining orders in nine different states:

  • One, the Simmons case, only has the recommendation for a preliminary injunction. But we’ll give them that one for now.
  • Seven were denied, withdrawn or have expired.
  • Ten have yet to be decided.

We would count that as one win for the spammers, seven losses, and 10 games still being played.

Orrin Woodward’s class-action ace D.J. Poyfair has been seen in courtrooms in Michigan, California and Texas. He has yet to attend a win.

TEAM trends:

  1. Fewer leaders. We’ve already commented enough on the dwindling number of plaintiffs in the California case. But you may want to read what Fred Harteis has to add to the discussion.
  2. Less transparency. When we were in Texas this week, in the
    course of one day we heard about TEAM; Signature Team Management LLC;
    Woodward International Networking Systems; and – our favorite –
    Signature Management Team, LLC, D/B/A TEAM, A Nevada Limited Liability
    Company.

    Now, every corporation can get confusing if you sift through enough
    paperwork, ours certainly included. But in this instance, we don’t like
    the way Mr. Woodward’s name jumps in and out of the stack,
    depending on legal and PR needs. Does Orrin Woodward own these
    companies? Does he run them? Is he a part of them? Yes. No. Maybe so.

  3. More business. Or maybe less. There’s that line about “we’re going to a million.” And then there’s what TEAM CEO Robert Dickie and COO Thomas Maguire
    stated in their Texas affidavits about how business is going: “a deluge
    of product returns;” customers “calling wanting their money back;” “a
    significant decrease in tool sales;” attendance “has fallen and events
    have even been canceled.” Dickie and Maguire claim it is because of our
    actions; we can’t help but wonder whether attacking us as a pyramid and
    alienating countless former customers has anything to do with it.

Those are the facts, as best as we can gather them. We welcome your perspectives.