Eichmann v. National Hospital & Health Care Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to modify a noncompete provision because the \drastic modifications\ required to make it enforceable \would be tantamount to fashioning a new agreement\
• refusing to modify a deficient restrictive covenant where necessary modifications would not be minor and would “discourag[e] the narrow and precise draftsmanship which should be reflected in written agreements”
• finding restrictive covenants in the independent contractor context more analogous to restrictive covenants in the employee context than in the sale of a business context and thus deserved the heightened scrutiny appropriate to covenants of employees
• “As a matter of law, [an employer] cannot have a protectible [sic] interest in future customers who do not yet exist.”
• \[i]t is within the sound discretion of the trial court whether to apply the doctrine of unclean hands\
• “[i]t is within the sound discretion of the trial court whether to apply the doctrine of unclean hands”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).