This Law Firm Publication by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., discusses Aid Maintenance Co. v. Realty Maintenance Service, Inc., in which the Rhode Island Superior Court held, as a matter of law, that a cleaning services employer failed to show that its employees tortiously interfered with its current and prospective customers despite showing that its employees simultaneously worked and secretly operated a competing business. The court ruled in favor of the employees, noting that the parties had no noncompete agreements, the employer was unable to quantify its damages and the employees' conduct was ordinary competitive behavior in that industry.