Judge Says Dismissed IBOS Cannot Use Company and Trade Group Info; Quixtar
                  Allowed to Enforce its Rules of Conduct

    ADA, Mich., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Three Michigan court rulings today
left dismissed distributor Orrin Woodward and his Team organization without
a single legal victory, as a judge ruled that he and a group of terminated
distributors cannot misuse the business information of Quixtar, the company
that dismissed them last week.
    In ruling on three motions related to the terminations, Judge Paul
Sullivan of Kent County Circuit Court took the following actions:
    -- Issued a preliminary injunction preventing Woodward and his company,
       Team, from using Quixtar business data to recruit Quixtar IBOs as Team
       builds a competing business;
    -- Issued a second injunction ordering Woodward and other terminated
       distributors to return confidential documents and data they had taken
       from their former trade association, which has suspended them; and
    -- Denied an injunction request from others who sought to prevent Quixtar
       from enforcing its rules of conduct.
    "These legal defeats to Orrin Woodward represent a victory for hundreds
of thousands of Quixtar independent business owners who are building their
businesses the right way, selling quality products and introducing
consumers to the Quixtar business opportunity," said Quixtar Executive Vice
President Jim Payne.
    Since his termination, Woodward has engaged in a campaign of PR
spamming, engaging a class-action law firm and filing numerous duplicative
lawsuits around the country. The company said it would defend itself
against Woodward's abuse of the legal system.
    "After these defeats, Mr. Woodward's credibility is down to zero," said
Quixtar spokesman Rob Zeiger. "Woodward has ignored our rules, abused the
legal process, defied the court, and misled the people who believed in him.
    "We stand by our main point: Terminating Orrin Woodward and ridding
Quixtar of his abusive business practices was absolutely the right thing to
do."

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