Showing posts with label Protectable Interest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protectable Interest. Show all posts
Friday, December 28, 2012

The Year In Illinois Non-Competes Fittingly Concludes With Another Rule 23 Order

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A few months ago, I wrote a post about a problem that I perceive with the way our appellate court of Illinois has been handling non-compe...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Post-Reliable Fire, Illinois Courts Are Really All Over the Place

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When the Supreme Court of Illinois rendered its decision in Reliable Fire Equipment Co. v. Arredondo , I really didn't think much had ...
Saturday, December 3, 2011

Assessing Reliable Fire and Non-Competes In Illinois

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The Supreme Court's opinion in Reliable Fire Equipment was not much of a surprise. It seemed fairly clear the Court would establish tha...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Supreme Court of Illinois Grants Leave to Appeal in Reliable Fire Equipment

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Today the Supreme Court of Illinois granted an employer's leave to appeal in Reliable Fire Equipment v. Arredondo , the Second District ...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

IBM Loses Preliminary Injunction Motion Over Executive's Departure to Hewlett Packard (IBM v. Visentin)

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IBM has had some high-profile non-compete disputes the past couple of years, and it has found itself on both the winning and losing sides ...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Florida Case Demonstrates Limits of Legitimate Business Interest Test (Southern Wine v. Simpkins)

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Florida is known as a highly pro-employer state, largely because of a comprehensive and detailed statute that makes enforcement of non-compe...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Part III: The Concurring Opinion in Reliable Fire Equipment v. Arredondo

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This is Part III in a series discussing the recent holding in Reliable Fire Equipment v. Arredondo . Please scroll down for prior posts and ...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Part II: Application of the Legitimate Business Interest Test in Reliable Fire Equipment

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This is Part II in a series discussing the recent holding in Reliable Fire Equipment v. Arredondo . Please scroll down for further discussio...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Part I: The Majority's Holding in Reliable Fire Equipment

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This is Part I in a series discussing the recent case of Reliable Fire Equipment v. Arredondo . Please scroll down for my initial post conce...

Second District of Illinois Appellate Court Reaffirms (Kind of ) Legitimate Business Interest Test (Reliable Fire Equipment v. Arredondo)

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There is officially a true conflict within the Illinois Appellate Courts over how the enforceability of non-competition agreements will be d...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Sunbelt Rentals Redux: The Same Argument Was Just Made In Michigan (Teachout Security v. Thomas)

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Pardon my continued discussion of Sunbelt Rentals , but it's kind of important. As readers know, the Appellate Courts in Illinois are in...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

An Illinois Court Finally Address Sunbelt Rentals (Steam Sales v. Summers)

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It took a while...but we finally have a follow-up to the important Sunbelt Rentals case that the Appellate Court of Illinois issued in 2009...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Are You Ready for Another Motorola Non-Compete Lawsuit?

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From Crain's Chicago Business today comes another story about Motorola feeling jilted by a former employee . This time, Motorla sued Da...
Monday, February 15, 2010

First Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary Injunction In Non-Compete Dispute (ANSYS, Inc. v. Computational Dynamics North Am.)

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Last year, I wrote about a decision from a federal district court in New Hampshire , which denied an employer's attempt to enjoin an emp...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Broadcast Employees Frequently Exempt From Non-Compete Agreements

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Jason Shinn, author of Defending the Digital Workplace , was kind enough to e-mail me this week about a fairly new Arizona statute that proh...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Illinois Courts Still Torn Over Sunbelt Rentals (Aspen Marketing Svcs v. Russell)

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Illinois may not get a resolution any time soon to whether an employer is required to prove that a non-compete covenant must support a recog...
Friday, December 4, 2009

Confusion Over Protectable Interest Creates Enforcement Problems (ANSYS, Inc. v. Computational Dynamics North Am.)

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Most states require that a non-compete agreement protect a legitimate business interest. Illinois may be moving away from this requirement, ...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Defection At Citadel's High-Frequency Trading Unit Warrants Injunction - To A Degree (Citadel Investment Group v. Teza Tech.)

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One of the most high-profile non-compete disputes in the Chicago area has resulted in a victory for Citadel Investment Group and a set-back ...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Supreme Court of Wisconsin Rules on Several Important Restrictive Covenant Issues (Star Direct v. Dal Pra)

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Wisconsin has long been known as an employee-friendly state when it comes to interpreting non-compete agreements. One of the primary reasons...
Friday, October 2, 2009

Fourth District in Illinois Rejects "Legitimate Business Interest" Test for Non-Compete Cases (Sunbelt Rentals, Inc. v. Ehlers)

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The Fourth District Appellate Court of Illinois may have just made it substantially more difficult for employees to break their non-compete ...