United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants-employees in a suit alleging breach of non-compete agreements is affirmed where the district court properly concluded Nebraska law should apply as opposed to Ohio law, and also properly concluded the noncompete agreements were overbroad and unenforceable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/25/2006
• Published 01/25/2006

Judges

• RILEY, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, JOHN R. GIBSON, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James F. McCarthy, argued, Cincinnati, OH (Jerome Bishop, Cincinnati, Daniel L. Harnett, and Michael P. Schmiedt, Sioux City, IA, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James Conrad Zalewski, argued, Lincoln, NE, for appellee.