The problem with things being non-enforceable is that they're often enforced anyway, with intimidation and legal actions that are more relatively costly for the

The problem with things being non-enforceable is that they're often enforced anyway, with intimidation and legal actions that are more relatively costly for the individual than the company. Non-competes are illegal for physicians in my state, but I know of a case in which the clinic dragged the case out so much with various technicalities that eventually the Dr. settled. Now, in a subsequent case with a different defendant, lawyers are refusing to take the case for that reason. So the doctor in question is waiting for the non-compete to expire before retrying opening a private practice anywhere near their home again. It's not enforceable legally, but they're doing so via other means.