Dan Price’s decision to pay Gravity employees more required spending some of the company’s profits. Did this violate the rights of his brother, Lucas, given that Lucas wasn’t consulted first?Over the course of the year following Dan Price’s April 2015 announcement, he was embroiled in a legal battle with his brother Lucas, coowner of Gravity Payments.* Lucas Price sued Dan, claiming that his brother had violated the 2008 agreement governing the ownership and management of the company. Under the terms of that agreement, Dan owned 67.5 percent of the company, and Lucas stepped away from what had previously been his day-to-day involvement in the company. Lucas sued, in part, because he says his brother had failed to involve him even in very major decisions—including the decision to change how much Gravity workers were paid. The lawsuit also claimed that Dan was paying himself too much. Court documents showed that Dan had tried to get his own total compensation raised to $5.5 million, which amounted to more than half of the company’s total revenue. At the time of writing, the judge in the case had agreed to the two brothers’ request to be allowed to attempt to resolve their problems out of court, through mediation.