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New South Carolina Case: Noncompete and Sale of a Business

Andy Arnold — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:58:00 +0000

This case should encourage employers and those selling their business to draft their non-competes with a more reasonable geographic scope (or else risk a court throwing the non-compete out altogether). But those who are asked to sign a non-compete should keep in mind that even if their non-compete is probably unenforceable, an employer can still sue to enforce it and cause the employee a lot of stress and attorneys’ fees.

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Physician Non-Competes Upheld by South Carolina Court of Appeals: Baugh v. Columbia Heart Clinic, P.A

Andy Arnold — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:09:25 +0000

In its first non-compete case involving a physicians, the South Carolina Court of Appeals used mostly well-trodden commercial case precedent to reverse a bench trial holding that the agreements were unenforceable

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South Carolina Case Review: Team IA, Inc. v. Lucas

Andy Arnold — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:56:15 +0000

The most recent reported South Carolina case involving non-compete is Team IA, Inc. v. Lucas, 717 S.E.2d 103 (S.C. Ct. of App. Oct. 2011). The case provides only modest insight into the legal landscapes of non-compete agreements, and in some ways creates a bit of uncertainty.

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Land of the Lost: The Antiquated Notion of Geographically Based Non-Competes

Andy Arnold — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:58:05 +0000

The more non-compete matters I review and litigate the more certain I am that geographically based non-competition covenants should be per se unenforceable.

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Bulls-Eye: An Overly Broad Radius

Andy Arnold — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:05:06 +0000

Many non-competes will prohibit a former employee from competing with in a certain defined radius. Drawing a circle and declaring…

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