Case: Individual Employment Rights/Noncompete Agreements (N.C. Super. Ct.)

A North Carolina court granted summary judgment to a former officer and director on his counterclaim under California law against BioSkryb Genomics, Inc., finding that the company violated the state’s business and professions statute by attempting to enforce void nonsolicitation restrictions through litigation, where California law applied due to choice-of-law clauses in the employment contracts and rendered the restrictions void as restraints on trade.

This story was produced by Bloomberg Law Automation and edited by Bloomberg Law staff.