Mertz v. Pharmacists Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that while which state’s law governs issue is question of law, determining state contacts involves factual inquiry
• holding noncompete agreement was overly broad where it was not limited to clients with whom the former employee actually did business or personally contacted
• holding noncompete agreement was overly broad where it was not limited to clients with whom the former employee actually did business or personally contacted
• referring to whether restriction was limited to former employer’s clients with whom former employee had had personal contacts
• discussing presumption created by application of sections dealing with specific types of contracts
• “Iowa’s interest in protecting the expectations of the parties is outweighed by Nebraska’s strong public policy considerations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).