Legal Opinion
Keener v. Convergys Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 21, 2003No. 18-14043PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, we apply the law as certified by the Supreme Court of Georgia and affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment, which declared a non-competition agreement (“NCA”) between Convergys Corporation and James A. Keener unenforceable under Georgia law. However, we hold that the district court abused its discretion when it enjoined Con-vergys from seeking to enforce the NCA against Keener in any court in the world. We also reverse the portion of the judgment that dismissed Convergys’s counterclaims.
I. BACKGROUND
To reach the merits of Convergys’s appeal…
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