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Representative Kevin Levitas’s HB 173 is headed for another hearing on Monday at the Georgia Capitol. It may be up for a vote before the full Judiciary Committee as soon as Tuesday, February 17, 2009.
Subcommittee chairman Representative Mike Jacobs led the latest hearing on Tuesday, February 10, 2009. The subcommittee heard support for the bill from Reed Elsevier, Inc.
Continue Reading Georgia’s Restrictive Covenant Legislation Moves Towards A Vote
The recent travails of newly hired Tennessee head football coach Lane Kiffin provide some interesting parallels to issues faced by a host of employers. As the penultimate paragraph of this piece from SportsIllustrated.com’s Andy Staples sets forth, Tennessee raided the coaching staffs of conference rivals Alabama and South Carolina to hire David Reaves and Lance Thompson, respectively. According to Staples, Reaves immediately…
Continue Reading Restrictive Covenant Lessons from…College Football Recruiting?
This morning (September 24, 2008), Rep. Kevin Levitas and Sen. Judson Hill from the Georgia Legislature convened the first meeting of a legislative study committee reviewing the law of Georgia with respect to restrictive covenants in employment and business relationships. The House Committee is chaired by Representative Kevin Levitas, and includes the following members: Representative Tim Bearden; Representative Butch Parrish; …
By Robert Milligan, Kurt Kappes and James McNairy
The California Supreme Court released its highly anticipated decision in Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP today and held that employee non-competition agreements are invalid, even if narrowly drawn, unless the agreement falls within a statutory exception.
In doing so, the Court rejected the Ninth Circuit’s narrow restraint exception, which excepted the prohibition…
TalentBurst, Inc. v. Collabera, Inc., Civ. No. 08-10940-WGY (D. Mass. July 25, 2008).
A federal court in Boston has dismissed a complaint brought by information technology temp agency TalentBurst against competitor Collabera for aiding and abetting a breach of fiduciary duty by TalentBurst’s former employee, who subsequently joined Collabera, on the ground that the employee owed no fiduciary duty…
By Robert Milligan and Summer Associate Justin de Herrera
In City of Oakland v. Hassey, 163 Cal.App.4th 1477, (June 17, 2008), a California appellate court recently rejected a police officer’s claim that a provision in his employment contract requiring him to reimburse the City of Oakland for his training expenses constituted an illegal covenant not to compete in violation…
