by Charles Horowitz | Jan 6, 2020 | Contracts, Leases, & Disputes, Employment Law, Miscellaneous
Readers of this blog by now are acquainted with Minnesota’s strict consideration requirement for enforcing non-competes. To recap, consideration is fancy language for something given in exchange for something else. For an employer’s restrictive covenant...
by Charles Horowitz | Mar 24, 2019 | Contracts, Leases, & Disputes, Employment Law
Does an employee’s non-competition or non-solicitation agreement remain enforceable if the employing company undergoes a change in ownership? Over the years, a substantial number of Federal and State court judges have addressed the issue. Despite...
by Charles Horowitz | Nov 29, 2017 | Civil Rights & Tort Law, Contracts, Leases, & Disputes, Miscellaneous
Few would dispute that we live in politically and socially acrimonious times. Online social media broaden the reach of ever more vile rhetoric aimed at individuals, ethnic groups, products and businesses. Although some forms of hate speech are constitutionally...
by Charles Horowitz | Oct 25, 2017 | Contracts, Leases, & Disputes, Employment Law
Minnesota law goes beyond federal law in protecting parents-to-be against unfair treatment in the workplace. The 2014 Women’s Economic Security Act (WESA) allows Minnesota employees up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave from work in order to have or adopt a child,...
by Charles Horowitz | Apr 19, 2017 | Contracts, Leases, & Disputes, Employment Law
Non-competes are a special kind of contract, whose language must be interpreted under the law of contracts and not on the basis of a standard borrowed from some other area of the law. That is the learning of the April 3, 2017 decision Valspar v. Mueller, A16-1113...
by Charles Horowitz | Feb 15, 2017 | Contracts, Leases, & Disputes, Employment Law
Of all disputes that end up in court, only three percent ever go to trial. Most of the rest settle. Settlement discussions, whether brokered by a mediator or obtained through direct negotiation, virtually always involve an exchange of information, not just demands and...
