Judge Allen van Gestel recently ruled against the plaintiff in Zabota Community Center, Inc. v. Frolova, et al., a noncompete case in which the plaintiff was seeking a preliminary injunction to enforce a noncompete agreement. The plaintiff, a company in the business of providing senior daycare services to the Russian community, informed its employee, Frolova, that she must sign a noncompete agreement or be terminated the next day.
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Judge Ralph D. Gants of the superior court recently ruled that a company was subject to treble (triple) damages under 93A for filing a noncompete case against its former employee when that former employee was in the process of establishing a competing business and negotiating with a customer of the employer.
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In the case of Quaboag Transfer, Inc. v. Halpin, et al., Judge Agnes of the Worcester Superior Court ruled that a non-competition agreement and a non-solicitation agreement signed by two former employees of Quaboag Transfer, Inc. could not prevent them from maintaining friendships with employees of the company.
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Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Thomas E. Connolly recently denied a medical product manufacturer’s motion to compel discovery from a competing start-up in a case alleging breach of a noncompete and misuse of trade secrets by the manufacturer’s former employee who now works for the competitor.
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