Other MLM's adopt Amway's anti-free enterprise attitudes to competition.
Distributors have to sue to pursue other business opportunities

“a person who is not free to pick his job or occupation
or to go into business for himself is not free.”
Amway co-founder Jay Van Andel

It seems Amway is the pace setter in the MLM industry and it now clear that Amway's anti-free enterprise attitude towards its distributors is taking hold at other MLMs as well.  In 2004 Amway implemented its non-compete rule.  Ironically at the time the new rule was passed, many diamonds sitting on the IBOA board of directors would become victims of the rule in three years  after they had endorsed it.

In this example, the MLM Univera had no such rules but once the business began to decline and people began to leave in droves, they implemented policies which threatened people with law suits if they were to participate in the downline of the plaintiffs' other MLM groups at Quivana.   The suit by the top Univera distributors alleges management screw-ups in new product introductions and administration that caused the business to contract and drive distributors to look for income from other MLM opportunities.   The suit also mentions allegations of character defamation against one of the Diamonds in suit, which I have noticed is a common theme in MLM disputes. 

Businesses of the former Amway diamonds (Team in Focus group) Joe Land, John Terhune, Marshall Douglas filed a suit in Florida for relief against Univera.     Some of the details can be read in this press release.  Click here for a copy of the suit .