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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, February 24, 2010
Astro-Med nets $1.5M in lawsuit damages
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West Warwick, R.I.-based Astro-Med Inc. announced that it has taken in $1.5 million in damages stemming from a lawsuit over of non-competition agreement with a former employee.
According to an Astro-Med news release, the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island found that Nihon-Kohden America, a competitor of Astro-Med, encouraged a former employee of Astro-Med subsidiary Grass Technologies to violate his employment agreement. The violation included the former Grass Technologies employee’s solicitation of business while he was still held to non-competition factors of his Astro-Med employment agreement.
Astro-Med was represented in court by Craig Scott of Scott & Bush Ltd. and Stacey P. Nakasian of Duffy & Sweeney Ltd.
Astro-Med makes electronic medical instrumentation, test and measurement instruments and specialty printing systems for the medical, military, aerospace, industrial and packaging industries. Its products are sold under the Astro-Med, Grass Technologies and QuickLabel Systems names.
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