Cordis Corp. v. Prooslin

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that in the non-compete and trade-secret context, an employer’s prior breach of the employment contract is relevant when deciding whether to grant the employer a temporary injunction where the breach involves a dependent covenant
• no abuse of discretion in denying temporary injunction where record showed doubt that employer had ability to succeed at trial
• a party seeking a temporary injunction must establish, \a substantial likelihood of success on the merits\
• injunction to enforce restrictive covenant properly denied because of unlikelihood of employer’s success on the merits
• before entering a temporary injunction, the trial court must use a balancingtype approach, balancing the possible beneficial results on the one hand with the possible detrimental results on the other
• “In the non-competition and trade-secret context, an employer’s breach of the employment contract is a relevant factor in determining whether the employer is entitled to a temporary injunction, at least where the breach involves a dependent covenant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).