by Charles Horowitz | Sep 26, 2018 | Employment Law
A federal court applying Minnesota law recently clarified the standard for pleading in non-compete cases, ruling that inference of a breach alone will not suffice where an employee accesses but isn’t shown to have used stolen documents. The ruling in the case,...
by Charles Horowitz | Sep 21, 2018 | Miscellaneous
From manicurists at your local salon to med-tech engineers to company CEOs, workers up and down the economic ladder are increasingly being required to sign noncompetition agreements (or “non-competes”) as a condition of their employment. Despite an historically tight...
by Charles Horowitz | Sep 18, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Readers of this blog know that reasonableness of non-competes in Minnesota is measured in terms of geographic scope (miles) and temporal scope (months/years). To be enforceable, both must be necessary to protect an employer’s legitimate business interest....