Sunbelt Rentals, Inc. v. Ehlers

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 employee has two options, not to sign the employment agreement or to ask to modify the terms of the restrictive covenants, but he does not have the option to sue to undo the contract unless the restrictions as to time and territory are unreasonable
• ‘courts at any level, when presented with the issue of whether a restrictive covenant should be enforced, should evaluate only the time-and-territory restrictions contained therein’
• “I further agree completely with the special concurrence’s repudiation of Sunbelt’s holding [about evaluating a restrictive covenant with respect to] ‘ “only the time-and-territory restrictions” ’ ” (emphasis in original)
• the employee had two options if he thought the restrictive covenants in his employment contract would cause him undue hardship: he could have opted not to sign or he could have asked his employer to eliminate or modify the terms of the restrictive covenants
• one-year limitation found to be reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).