Eastern Business Forms, Inc. v. Kistler

How courts have described this case

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• finding the court may not make a new agreement for the parties into which they did not voluntarily enter
• noncompetition agreements, while not favored, will be upheld if the territorial extent of the restraint and the period for which it will be imposed are reasonable
• noncompetition agreements, while not favored, will be upheld if the territorial extent of the restraint and the period for which it will be imposed are reasonable
• The court “cannot make a new agreement for the parties into as which they did not voluntarily enter. We must uphold the covenant as written or not at all, it must stand or fall integrally.”
• South Carolina adheres to a blue pencil rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).