A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary must pay more than $1.3 million for luring away a rival medical device maker's employee in order to win the business of a major client, a U.S. appeals court said on Tuesday.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims that a non-compete agreement signed by a salesman for St. Jude Medical SC Inc who left in 2012 to work for Biosense Webster Inc was too restrictive and impermissibly sought to evade California law, which says non-competes are void.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims that a non-compete agreement signed by a salesman for St. Jude Medical SC Inc who left in 2012 to work for Biosense Webster Inc was too restrictive and impermissibly sought to evade California law, which says non-competes are void.
