{"id":545,"date":"2015-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/events-lindabury.blawgcloud.com\/2015\/02\/employers-face-significant-difficulty-obtaining-injunctive-relief-for-alleged-breach-of-noncompetition-and-confidentiality-provisions.html"},"modified":"2016-08-24T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:22:56","slug":"employers-face-significant-difficulty-obtaining-injunctive-relief-for-alleged-breach-of-noncompetition-and-confidentiality-provisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/employers-face-significant-difficulty-obtaining-injunctive-relief-for-alleged-breach-of-noncompetition-and-confidentiality-provisions.html","title":{"rendered":"Employers Face Significant Difficulty Obtaining Injunctive Relief for Alleged Breach of Non-competition and Confidentiality Provisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/attorneys\/Eric_Levine\/\">Eric Levine, Esq.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In , the Superior Court denied Mega Brand&rsquo;s application for injunctive relief against two former employees who purportedly violated the non-competition and confidentiality provisions of their employment agreements. &nbsp;The decision illustrates the burden faced by employers seeking to enforce post-employment restrictions against former employees, as well as the consequences of appearing less than truthful when seeking judicial relief. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Facts: <\/strong>Mega Brands is a distributor of stationary products to large retail customers such as Wal-Mart and Target. &nbsp;Prior to joining Mega Brands, Michael Cerillo and Ben Hoch operated a company that sold stationary products comparable to those offered by Mega Brands. &nbsp;In 2006, Mega Brands acquired the company through a stock purchase agreement (&ldquo;SP Agreement&rdquo;) and hired Cerillo and Hoch under employment agreements containing standard non-competition and confidentiality provisions.&nbsp; These agreements expired on the later of five years from the date of the SP Agreement or twelve months after Cerillo and Hoch&rsquo;s termination of employment with Mega Brands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/employers-face-significant-difficulty-obtaining-injunctive-relief-for-alleged-breach-of-noncompetition-and-confidentiality-provisions.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading Employers Face Significant Difficulty Obtaining Injunctive Relief for Alleged Breach of Non-competition and Confidentiality Provisions\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Eric Levine, Esq. In , the Superior Court denied Mega Brand&rsquo;s application for injunctive relief against two former employees who purportedly violated the non-competition and confidentiality provisions of their employment agreements. &nbsp;The decision illustrates the burden faced by employers seeking to enforce post-employment restrictions against former employees, as well as the consequences of appearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,65,247],"tags":[],"coauthors":[178],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-levine","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Employers Face Significant Difficulty Obtaining Injunctive Relief for Alleged Breach of Non-competition and Confidentiality Provisions &#8212; February 2, 2015 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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