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Noncompete

Are Apple and IBM Competitors?

November 8, 2008

Many people knowledgeable about these two companies may be surprised to learn that IBM has persuaded a U.S. District Court judge in New York that indeed, they are competitors.  The judge has enjoined Mark Papermaster, a 25-plus year employee of IBM, from working for Apple Computer.  While at IBM Mr. Papermaster was a product development

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Judge Fabricant's Preliminary Injunction Decision in HRH v. Sheppard

October 28, 2008

Attached below is Judge Judith Fabricant’s lengthy decision in Hilb Rogal & Hobbs v. Sheppard, decided by Judge Fabricant in the Suffolk Business Litigation Session early this year. To my knowledge, this decision and order became publicly available only recently. This restrictive covenant case is interesting in one unusual respect: it involves what some lawyers

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Judge Gants' Decision in NERA v. Evans

October 15, 2008

One of the great benefits of the Suffolk Business Litigation Session (the BLS) is that the judges tend to write detailed opinions explaining their decisions. This tends to be less true elsewhere in the Superior Court. Recently-retired Superior Court Judge Allen van Gestel created a tradition of written jurisprudence while he headed the BLS, and

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