DENVER: Quixtar and a group of 15 distributors have taken to trading barbs online as they await the latter groups' lawsuit, alleging that Quixtar knowingly operates as a pyramid scheme, to go to trial.

The plaintiffs are seeking a nullification of their contracts. A focus of the lawsuit is the non-competition agreement included in the contracts. Hearings are set to begin on September 12.

“The action filed in California on August 9 alleges not only that Quixtar is a pyramid scheme, ...