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Could it only take a filing in federal court, in the state where the NDA specifies which state's laws shall considered, to bring the former employee into the lo

• jonathankoren 8y ago
  No. It's against the public policy of the State of California for a noncompete to be valid, and so the contract is invalid. There's a compelling state interest not to enforce contracts that harm their residents. California has decided that more harm is done by enforcing such a contract than not. But yeah, I'm sure you can find lots of lawyers to file as many motions as you want as long as your checks cash, but in the end you're going to have to decide that this is really worth it, especially since there's a very real possibility that you'd end up going up against the State of California.