Casual Male Retail Group is fighting it out in court with Cutter & Buck over e-commerce and catalog operations. Specifically, Casual Male Retail Group, Inc., and Casual Male RBT, LLC filed a lawsuit on January 29, 2007 against Cutter & Buck Inc., Cutter & Buck Direct, LLC, Robert H. Yarbrough, RKC Mail LLC, a.k.a. MP4 Limited, d/b/a Mile Post Four, and Mile Post Investment, LLC in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts alleging, among other things, that Cutter & Buck improperly interfered with certain of Casual Male's relationships with its employees, and that certain Cutter & Buck employees improperly accessed, misappropriated and destroyed Casual Male's proprietary confidential information.
The lawsuit also alleges that certain Cutter & Buck employees breached contractual obligations not to compete with Casual Male. The lawsuit seeks a preliminary and/or permanent injunction enjoining Cutter & Buck from using its e-commerce Internet website and consumer catalog. Though a specific dollar amount was not listed, Casual Male is also seeking compensatory damages, punitive damages, reasonable costs and expenses, and such other relief as the Court deems proper. For its part, Cutter & Buck said in a release that it “has not yet fully evaluated the merits of the various allegations, but intends to defend itself vigorously in the lawsuit.”
