Corporate Law Opening a shop selling same clothes.

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There is this one. A man has a friend, Beth, with a privately owned clothing shop-Ego. (Felisa, the woman the man lives with also works in Ego.) The man agreed to help Beth increase the income of her shop-through advertising. (This also gave the man the a chance to see more of Felisa.) The man worked every day at increasing the income of the shop. By the sixth month, sales had quadrupled and were still on the rise. He was building quite a clientele for the shop. Now along comes another man-Beth's ex-boyfriend (who She had broken up with months before and was suppose to leave town)-who opens a shop across the street from Ego-selling the same line of clothes, Life is good, as Ego. He begins by bragging of his instant success (making 10,000 dollars a day) and went so far as to ask if Ego's employees (which included Felisa and Beth) would prefer working for him. Beth immediately began proceedings against him for opening the shop and selling the same clothes as Ego. It was to include that he had known from the start about the venture to increase the income of Ego, that he had followed it closely, and that he new about its tremendous success. Instead, things did not happen that way. Beth and her ex-boyfriend were married. Obviously nothing became of the proceedings The man soon stopped working at increasing Ego's income. Felisa left Ego soon there after. Ironically, the marriage only lasted a month. Since then, Felisa has asked the man to see if there is any thing he can do about-the second man having known from the start about the venture to increase the income of the shop, having followed it carefully, and having known about its tremendous success-leading up to his opening of the shop and the selling of the same line of clothes. Is there anything the man can do? Please help. Thank You. PS No matter how I have tried to tell the story, it never did it justice. I hope using the third person does. Thank You, again Peter