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Litigation
12 Months Ended
Mar. 30, 2012
Litigation [Abstract]  
Litigation
Note 16.  Litigation
 
A subsidiary of the Company, Quintum Technologies, LLC (Quintum), is party, by interpleader, to three related lawsuits in Greece filed by Lexis SA, a former distributor of Quintum products in Greece. The initial interpleader lawsuit was filed October 26, 2006, at the Multimember First Instance Court of Athens. At hearings in January and February 2012, the underlying lawsuits were cancelled due to the fact that the originating plaintiffs waived their rights against Lexis prior to the hearing. However, Lexis has not yet formally waived its rights against Quintum, and so hearings are still on calendar on the matter between Lexis and Quintum, now scheduled for January 2015. By way of background, the lawsuits allege that a set of hardware and software products acquired by Lexis for a customer failed to perform as a system. The products include Quintum's hardware product and a software product by another vendor. The damages sought include a refund of amounts paid for the purchase of the hardware and software, totaling approximately $98,000, compensation for real and moral damages, totaling approximately $4.4 million, and monetary damages totaling approximately $3.6 million for non delivery of services that were to be delivered through the system. The Company has not accrued any amounts related to the claim, as it believes that a negative outcome is not probable.
 
In addition to the above, the Company is involved in various legal proceedings from time to time in the normal course of its business. The company believes that an unfavorable outcome related to such legal proceedings is neither probable nor estimable.