A former employee of Pittsburgh Logistics Systems, Inc. was granted summary judgment on PLS’s claims that he breached a non-competition provision in his employment agreement, when he left PLS to work for a direct competitor, but PLS is entitled to summary judgment on breach of the agreement’s non-solicitation provision, a federal court in Texas ruled. The court concluded a non-competition provision that amounted to a industry wide ban on employment with a competitor throughout the United States was unreasonable in scope, and therefore unenforceable under a Texas law on covenants not to compete. However, the court found the non-solicitation provision ...
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