Legal Opinion
Chris Cardoni v. Prosperity Bank
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 29, 2015No. 14-20682, 15-20005PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge:
In addition to their well-known disagreements over boundaries 1 and football, 2 Texas and Oklahoma do not see eye to eye on a less prominent issue: covenants not to compete. Texas generally allows them so long as they are limited both geographically and temporally. Tex. Bus. & Com.Code Ann. § 15.50(a). Oklahoma generally does not. Okla. Stat. tit. 15, § 217.* These different policy choices — Texas’s view which prioritizes parties’ freedom to contract and Oklahoma’s which emphasizes the right to earn a living and competition — came to a head when Texas-based…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Atlantic Marine Constr. Co. v. United States Dist. Court for Western Dist. of Tex.Supreme Court of the United States · 2013
- Stewart Organization, Inc. v. Ricoh Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1988
- DeSantis v. Wackenhut Corp.Texas Supreme Court · 1990
- Carter v. Countrywide Credit Industries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2004
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