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Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a certain industry or locale. The purpose of these agreements is to protect employers or business purchasers from competition stemming from former employees or former owners of a business. less -

Rhode Island Court Gives Assignability of Employee Non-Competes a Haircut

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/11/2017

Last month, a Rhode Island trial court held that a hairdresser’s noncompetition agreement with the salon for which she had been working, which sold its assets to a successor salon, was not transferable to the successor...more

Can Non-Compete Agreements Be Classified As Personal Services Contracts?

Fisher Phillips on 7/15/2016

In Symphony Diagnostic Services No 1 Inc. d/b/a MobilexUSA v. Greenbaum, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals tjust addressed an issue that frequently arises in the non-compete context: what happens when a company buys the...more

Non-Compete Agreements may be Transferred and Enforced by the Successor Employer Following an Asset Purchase Sale

Franczek P.C. on 7/14/2016

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that non-compete agreements may be transferred to a successor employer through an asset sale and enforced by that successor employer against the employees who previously...more

Eleventh Circuit Decision Weakens Injunctive Enforcement of Restrictive Covenants

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 9/22/2015

Last month, in Transunion Risk and Alt. Data Sols., Inc., v. MacLachlan, the Eleventh Circuit held that the district court should have considered hardship to an employee when it enforced a restrictive covenant in an...more

Employment Flash - February 2013

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/26/2013

In This Issue: - Ohio Supreme Court Reverses Decision on Surviving Merger Entity’s Ability to Enforce Noncompetition Agreements - “Sweet” Decision for California Employers: Court Approves Time Rounding in Case...more

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