Capricorn Systems, Inc. v. Pednekar

How courts have described this case

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• holding that if no actual damages shown for breach of a termination notice provision, then nominal damages were still recoverable
• holding that if no actual damages shown for breach of a termination notice provision, then nominal damages were still recoverable
• holding that a restrictive covenant that had no definite geographic-area limitations as to competition, solicitation of clients, or recruiting of employees rendered the covenant unenforceable for being overbroad
• liquidated damages clause unenforceable where damages set arbitrarily at $50,000 and bore no rational relationship to actual or potential damages
• “Void restrictive covenants, which cannot be blue-penciled5 out of the contract, do not void the entire contract when the contract contains a severability clause . . . .”
• “Where a former employee is prohibited from working in any scope or capacity of employment for a competitor of the former employer, such covenant not to compete is unenforceable as being overly and unreasonably broad”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).