Universal Studios Inc. v. Viacom Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “when the parties’ agreements have been breached but neither the innocent party nor the venture suffers immediate quantifiable harm,” the Court can still award equitable relief
• finding Viacom International was an affiliate of Paramount, and therefore subject to the non-compete clause signed by Paramount, when, in part, the two entities were under the common control of the defendant corporation, Viacom Inc.
• “On consummation of the merger, Viacom did become an affiliate of Paramount and assumed Paramount’s obligations to comply with its covenants relevant here.”
• “[I]mmediately following Viacom Inc.’s acquisition of Paramount, Viacom International and Paramount were under the common control of Viacom Inc., and as such were affiliates within the definition of the Guarantee.”
• binding a later-in-time affiliated entity to a noncompete

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).