Whirlpool Corp. v. Burns

How courts have described this case

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• finding a global non-compete overbroad because it prevented the defendant from selling appliances anywhere in the world, even if such sales did not involve any of the same customers he served during his tenure working for the plaintiff
• “The reasonableness of a covenant not to compete is not analyzed in the abstract, but in the context of the employer’s particular business interest and the function and knowledge of the particular employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).