Orca Communications Unlimited, LLC v. Noder

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an 20 employer cannot deem all information that an employee learns through employment as 21 confidential if that information includes that which is publicly available
• noting that misuse of confidential information could be used to 2 prove impropriety at trial
• striking down a non-solicitation agreement that applied to actual, potential, and 9 former customers as broader than necessary to protect the business’s legitimate interests
• finding plausible claim for breach of covenant of good faith and 14 fair dealing on basis of duty of loyalty where employee opened a competing business and 15 solicited co-workers to join it while working for employer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Orca Communications v. Ann Noder Et vir/pitch Public
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2014-11-19· cited 55×
• Joshua David Mellberg LLC v. Will
  D. Arizona· 2015-03-30· cited 20×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Coleman v. City of Mesa
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2012-09-07· cited 352×
• Trantor v. Fredrikson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1994-07-28· cited 152×
• Fragoso v. Fell
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2005-05-10· cited 114×
• Valley Medical Specialists v. Farber
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1999-06-18· cited 98×
• Echols v. Beauty Built Homes, Inc.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-06-21· cited 81×
• Trollope v. Koerner
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1970-05-29· cited 74×
• Mortgage Specialists, Inc. v. Davey
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2006-07-26· cited 58×
• Amex Distributing Co., Inc. v. Mascari
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-07-03· cited 53×
• Security Title Agency, Inc. v. Pope
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2008-07-29· cited 52×
• Auto Channel, Inc. v. Speed Vision Network, LLC
  W.D. Kentucky· 2001-05-02· cited 51×
• Enterprise Leasing Co. of Phoenix v. Ehmke
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1999-12-02· cited 51×
• Hauck Manufacturing Co. v. Astec Industries, Inc.
  E.D. Tennessee· 2004-10-14· cited 42×
• Calisi v. Unified Financial Services, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2013-04-11· cited 37×
• Stone Castle Financial, Inc. v. Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co.
  E.D. Virginia· 2002-03-05· cited 35×
• Johnson International, Inc. v. City of Phoenix
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1998-11-09· cited 33×
• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1991-09-05· cited 32×
• Bryceland v. Northey
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1989-04-04· cited 28×
• State v. Ross
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2007-01-30· cited 28×
• Spudnuts, Inc. v. Lane
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1982-02-26· cited 24×
• BlueEarth Biofuels, LLC v. Hawaiian Electric Co.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2010-07-20· cited 22×