A Utah judge has ordered the therapeutic oils company Young Living Essential Oils LC to pay competitor doTerra Inc. about $1.8 million in attorney fees and other costs related to a long running lawsuit over executives who left the former company to start the latter.
Young Living lost that lawsuit last year. doTerra argued the suit never had merit and Young Living should pay its legal fees.
Fourth District Judge Christine Johnson, on Tuesday, ordered the fees be paid. In her written ruling, Johnson agreed with doTerra that Young Living pursued its lawsuit in “bad faith.