Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Severn Trent Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that “a 6 nondisparagement clause can no more trump a subpoena issued by a government agency than 7 any private contract could” because doing so would amount to “obstructions of justice”
• non-disparagement clause preventing party from making “any remarks that would tend to or could be reasonably construed to tend to defame”
• stating a private contract cannot trump a government subpoena

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).