Case: Individual Employment Rights/Noncompete Agreements (N.D. Ill.)

A federal district court granted in part a plant manager’s motion for summary judgment on LKQ Corp.'s claims that he violated a restricted stock agreement and a noncompete agreement by resigning to work for a direct competitor, where the agreements’ restrictions were unreasonable restraints of trade that barred him from the salvage industry, and a forfeiture provision to claw back the total value of stock benefits he received during his employment didn’t protect LKQ’s legitimate business interests.