And carefully consider all of the implications of signing a
noncompetition clause. Negotiate the clause cautiously; you won't want to spend time and money litigating this issue if you leave.
Let's establish a
noncompetition clause. Build each other up instead of one-upping.
Beal had died in 1883, and the basis for the
noncompetition clause had expired with him.
2d at 571-72 (holding a
noncompetition clause void because of a failure to meet the statutory exception to the general rule that covenants restricting trade are disfavored).
457(f) aimed at creating a substantial risk of forfeiture is to include a
noncompetition clause in a terminating executive's employment agreement.
While courts in some states will modify a
noncompetition clause that is too broad, others will not.
(24) In that case, the departing employee's restrictive covenant contained both a customer nonsolicitation clause and a general
noncompetition clause. The Court of Appeals of Idaho upheld a determination that the liquidated damages clause, which assessed damages at $5,000 per month of illegal competition, was void as a penalty.
The partnership's billing practices, he said, "place me at great risk, without personal benefit, and without an avenue to change these practices, therefore jeopardizing the validity of my employment contract with CVSA," including the
noncompetition clause.
In addition to the provision on termination, the contract also set forth a
noncompetition clause whereby the employee agreed not to enter into any competing insurance business and not to write any policies for any persons who were clients of the former employer.
According to the drug chain's lawyers, the terminations didn't abrogate either the five-year
noncompetition clause barring Perlmutter or Marden from starting a firm to compete against Odd Lot or Revco's right of first refusal to repurchase their shares should Perlmutter and Marden attempt to sell their shares to a third party.
But in denying TeamWorks' effort to block the AIDS/LifeCycle from taking place, California superior court judge David Yaffe ruled on January 14 that state law may invalidate the
noncompetition clause in TeamWorks' contract.
What is meant by a true
noncompetition clause, however, is more specific.