The new company was in California, where there are stricter non-compete laws, and had been poaching people from the old company. They were at the point, I thin

The new company was in California, where there are stricter non-compete laws, and had been poaching people from the old company. They were at the point, I think, where they both wanted to get federal precedent on non-competes to settle matters. This is what one of the lawyers in Texas told us (we had lawyers in three different states working on "our" team), when he suggested we might not want to play defendant in that game.