Trepanier MacGillis Battina P.A. 8000 Flour Exchange Building 310 Fourth Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55415 612.455.0500
Trepanier MacGillis Battina P.A. 8000 Flour Exchange Building 310 Fourth Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55415 612.455.0500

Minnesota Non-Compete Agreement Declared Unenforceable and Ineligible for “Blue-Pencil”

In Gavaras v. Greenspring Media, LLC, 994 F.Supp.2d 1006 (D. Minn. 2014), the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota issued a declaratory judgment finding a non-compete agreement unenforceable because its terms were unclear, vague, overly broad and incomplete. The court also declined to apply the “blue-pencil doctrine” to make the non-compete agreement […]