Dirty Dough doesn’t have to stop opening franchises while the case continues, but Crumbl has ‘likelihood of success,’ judge writes
The lawsuit started in May 2022, when Crumbl filed a complaint that claimed Dirty Dough took recipes and other proprietary information. Crumbl accused brothers Bennett and Bradley Maxwell of taking that information when each was involved with Crumbl — Bennett had been turned down as a franchise operator, while Bradley worked as a process engineer at the company.
After an evidentiary hearing in the case, detailed in Nielson’s ruling, both sides agreed that Dirty Dough and Bradley Maxwell would return Crumbl’s information and any documents derived from it, and that Maxwell would verify under oath that everything had been returned. The fact that Dirty Dough agreed to return the downloaded information to Crumbl made the injunction a moot point, Nielson wrote.