New England Canteen Service, Inc. v. Ashley

How courts have described this case

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• trade secrets, confidential information or injury to good will permit injunctive relief for reasonable covenants
• trial judge in “the best position to judge the weight and credibility of the evidence”
• trial judge is in best position to determine credibility and weight of evidence
• “it is the trial judge who, by virtue of his firsthand view of the presentation of evidence, is in the best position to judge the weight and credibility of the evidence”
• “Where the record fails to show that the plaintiff has carried the burden of persuasion as to the existence of a valid good will interest, the plaintiff has failed to establish the threshold requirement to support a request for injunctive relief.”
• “In deciding whether a judge’s subsidiary finding of fact is clearly erroneous, it must be emphasized that it is the trial judge who, by virtue of his firsthand view of the presentation of evidence, is in the best position to judge the weight and credibility of the evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).