Legal Opinion
DeSantis v. Wackenhut Corp.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 6, 1990No. C-6617PublishedCited by 709 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
HECHT, Justice.
On motions for rehearing, our opinion and judgment of July 13, 1988, are withdrawn, and the following is now the opinion of the Court.
This case involving a noncompetition agreement between an employer and employee presents three principal issues: first, whether the law of the state chosen by the parties to govern their agreement should be applied; second, whether the noncompetition agreement is enforceable; third, if the agreement is not enforceable, whether damages for its attempted enforcement are recoverable under the Texas Free Enterprise and…
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