California Court of Appeal

In a suit against an employee for breach of an employment agreement containing a covenant not to compete and against a competitor for interference with contract, district court's grant of defendants' motion for nonsuit is affirmed, as the stock purchase agreement and the employment agreement must be read together as an integrated agreement, and when the two noncompetition covenants are read together, the noncompetition and nonsolicitation covenant contained in the employment agreement is void and unenforceable under California law, and the covenant does not fit within the limited exception to California's prohibition against covenants not to compete.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/24/2012
• Published 08/24/2012

Judges

• Fybel

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel