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What the Courts Said About ISR 

Court:     This may be a dumb question, but you begin, for example, with a number of your materials and your testimony here today with the expression of your concern to avoid infant drowning and infant brain damage.  Put it simply.  Wouldn’t it be in the public interest to create a worldwide net of instructors who can accomplish this very worthy goal?
 
Barnett:  Yes, sir, that’s what I’m attempting to do.
 
Court:     So long as there is money coming back to you.

We can see Barnett's expression; priceless.

Transcript of Hearing on Preliminary Injunction, February 1, 2001 


ISR argues that if instructors are trained improperly, children could die.  I am unpersuaded.

Lewis T. Babcock, Chief Judge, Federal Court for District of Colorado
Ruling on Motion for Preliminary Injunction, April 16, 2001


ISR has provided no evidence that any instructor trained in Defendant’s curriculum would pose any greater risk to children than does the average new ISR instructor.  I therefore conclude that ISR has failed to meet its burden to show that a preliminary injunction is in the public’s best interest.

Lewis T. Babcock, Chief Judge, Federal Court for District of Colorado
Ruling on Motion for Preliminary Injunction, April 16, 2001
 


“The Court also agrees with the defendants that despite all the evidence offered at trial, it is difficult to articulate the contours of plaintiff's trade secret with any precision. Thus, . . . there is no basis on which to enjoin any defendant from violating plaintiff's unspecified trade secret(s), whatever those trade secret(s) may be.”

Phillip Figa, District Court Judge, Federal Court for District of Colorado
Global Ruling on Post Trial Motions, May 5, 2004


“[Even after the evidence] it remains unclear to this Court exactly what "confidential information" may have been used by the defendants in their business of teaching swimming to either instructors or students. It also remains murky to this Court exactly what part of the "methods, materials, techniques, trade secrets and/or systems used by ISR" are confidential, for as the defendants correctly point out, plaintiff argued that it was the system as a whole that was the trade secret. To the extent that plaintiff has not articulated with specificity the contours of plaintiff's "confidential information," or the confidential "methods, materials, techniques, trade secrets and/or systems used by ISR," which it seeks to be the subject of the proposed injunction, this Court agrees with defendants that any such injunction would be imprecise and could lead to further costly and probably meaningless litigation.”

Phillip Figa, District Court Judge, Federal Court for District of Colorado
Global Ruling on Post Trial Motions, May 5, 2004

 

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