Curtis 1000, Incorporated v. Roy H. Suess and American Business Forms, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• stating that \[e]mployment at will is of course a contractual relationship\
• stating that “[e]mployment at will is of course a contractual relationship”
• affirming denial of preliminary injunction; refusing to honor covenant’s selection of governing state law where chosen state had minimal connection to parties’ relationship
• “But Illinois, unlike Delaware, limits the interests that a covenant not to compete may protect to trade secrets, confidential information, and relations with ‘near-permanent’ customers of the employer”
• covenants not to compete may only protect “trade secrets, confidential information, and relations with ‘near-permanent’ customers of the employer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).