Varsity Brands Wins Again at Alabama Supreme Court

The Alabama State Supreme Court Friday affirmed last year’s $3.1 million jury win for Dallas-based Varsity Brands in a trade secrets case against Jostens Inc., one of its national competitors in the sale of scholastic-recognition products.

In a unanimous decision, the court rejected — as an affront to the jury’s discretion — that Varsity Brands and it subsidiary, Herff Jones, never actually proved that the dramatic swing of 47 school clients to Jostens in Central and Southern Alabama was the direct result of its hiring of two key sales representatives and the confidential information they took with them.