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Boston Beer sues Downeast Cider alleging noncompete violation

Beverages are stacked in a cooler for takeout at Sam Adams Boston Taproom at Faneuil Hall.

Beverages are stacked in a cooler for takeout at Sam Adams Boston Taproom at Faneuil Hall.

A new lawsuit alleges that a former Boston Beer Co. employee who left for a job at Downeast Cider did so in violation of the company’s noncompete and non-disclosure agreements.

Boston Beer said it its lawsuit that the employee, who left earlier this year, even used an external USB drive to download the company’s “proprietary and confidential” information in the days after he submitted his resignation.

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