Legal Opinion
Oxford Global Res., LLC v. Hernandez
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 7, 2018No. SJC-12439PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGants, C.J.
*560**462The defendant was employed in California by the plaintiff company, which is headquartered in Massachusetts. As a condition of employment, he signed a confidentiality, nonsolicitation, and noncompetition agreement (agreement) that declared that the agreement would be governed by the laws of Massachusetts **463and that all lawsuits arising from the agreement would be brought in a Massachusetts court. After the employee left to work for a competitor in California, and allegedly violated the nonsolicitation and confidentiality provisions of the agreement in performing his new job, his prior…
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