BellSouth Corp. v. Forsee
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Phipps, Judge.
This litigation pits two of our nation’s major telecommunications companies against one of their key executives. The companies complain that if the executive accepts an offer of employment by a competitor of theirs, he will breach noncompetition and nondisclosure covenants in his employment agreement. The companies seek arbitration of the dispute. The Superior Court of Fulton County entered a temporary restraining order (TRO) forbidding the executive from accepting employment with the competitor pending arbitration. The court, however, found the noncompetition covenant to be…
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