Philips Electronics North America Corp. v. Hope

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• holding that public interest is served by ensuring that contracts are enforced and preventing unethical business behavior
• observing that a two-year time restriction was “well within the range that the North Carolina courts have deemed reasonable”
• finding that under North Carolina law, a corporation may enforce a non-competition agreement executed by an employee of a merged entity
• finding that the former employee would suffer no harm where he agreed in his contract that the restrictions were reasonable and that they would “not prevent him from earning a livelihood or otherwise impose undue hardship on him”
• awarding $100,000 bond after enjoining former employee from working for a competitor and from disclosing plaintiff-former employer’s confidential information
• awarding a $100,000 security after enjoining a defendant- former employee from working for a competitor and from disclosing plaintiff-former employer’s confidential information

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