Varney Business Services, Inc. v. Pottroff

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing a partial summary judgment is “not a final judgment”
• the court upheld a provision requiring an employee who left the firm to compensate the firm for those clients the employee provided services for in the subsequent 5 years
• employee was not entitled to receive payment after termination, due to her failure to comply with employer’s condition precedent to payment
• a penalty is to secure performance and is not for payment of sum in lieu of performance
• “Judicial discretion is abused only when no reasonable person would take the view adopted by the trial court. [Citation omitted.]”
• a contract that is illegal or against public policy is unenforceable under Kansas law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).