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Texas Federal Judge Strikes Down FTC Non-Compete Ban

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Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Tuesday struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) pending ban on non-compete covenants, concluding that the issuance of the FTC’s Rule...more

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DraftKings Obtains Restrictive Covenant and Trade Secret Injunction Against Former Executive

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All bets are off in a Boston-based dispute between DraftKings Inc. and one of its former vice presidents. On April 30, 2024, the District of Massachusetts granted DraftKings a twelve-month preliminary injunction preventing...more

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Employment Litigation Roundup: November 2023

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Ex-employee’s golf outing with customer does not violate non-solicit - An auto parts manufacturer in Michigan sought a preliminary injunction against a former sales employee for violating his restrictive covenants,...more

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The Importance of Understanding The Contractual Limits of Restrictive Covenants (Part II)

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In one of my first posts, entitled Restrictive Covenants: The Importance of Understanding Their Contractual Limits, I wrote about a First Department decision upholding a portion of Justice Andrea Masley’s Order enjoining a...more

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"Breaking Contracts has Consequences" - Third Circuit Backs Employer with Restrictive Covenant Agreements

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What happens when your employee signs multiple restrictive covenant agreements with different terms, and then violates them? A recent decision from the Third Circuit in Heartland Payment Sys., LLC v. Volrath addresses a...more

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Trade Secret Defendant Awarded Fees for “Objectively Specious” DTSA Claims

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Judge William Alslup of the Northern District of California recently awarded fees to CloudFlare, Inc. (CloudFlare), a defendant in a trade secret misappropriation case under, in part, the relatively new Defend Trade Secrets...more

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Rhode Island Trial Court Decision Could Spell Trouble for Employers Seeking to Enforce Restrictive Covenants Against Healthcare...

One of an employer’s first steps in a suit against a former employee to enforce a restrictive covenant is to seek a preliminary injunction to prevent the employee from continuing to violate his or her contractual obligations....more

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Restrictive Covenants – A Close Call Goes The Employer’s Way

A very recent federal court decision, A.H. Harris & Sons, Inc. v. Naso, 2015 WL 1420132 (D.Conn.), illustrates how judges weigh various facts when deciding to grant or deny a preliminary injunction in a restrictive covenant...more

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