Legal Opinion
E.T. Products, LLC v. D.E. Miller Holdings, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 20, 2017No. 16-1204PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Doug Miller and his son Tracy signed a broad noncompetition agreement when Doug sold his fuel-additives business, E.T. Products, to a group of investors in January 2011. Doug sold his other company, Petroleum Solutions, to John Kuhns about a year later. E.T. Products’s new owners sued the Millers for breaching the noncom-pete by providing assistance to Kuhns as he learned the Petroleum Solutions business.
The Millers responded by attacking the noncompete as overbroad and unenforceable. They also pointed out that their assistance to Kuhns came at a time when Petroleum…
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