Allen, Gibbs & Houlik, L.C. v. Ristow

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• involving a covenant that left a plaintiff with “very few places” she could work
• “If the sole purpose is to avoid ordinary competition, [a non-competition agreement] is unreasonable and unenforceable.”
• “Prior Kansas cases have held that legally sufficient interests in the setting of an employment agreement include trade secrets and customer contacts or relationships.”
• this court determined employees take knowledge and skills acquired on the job with them when they leave, and those skills are not protectable so long as the employee does not take anything that belongs to the employer
• “[I]f we choose to enforce this clause, Ristow could work virtually nowhere.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).