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The legal principle you're groping for is unconscionability (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability),
by stephencanon 12y ago
The legal principle you're groping for is unconscionability (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability), and it can indeed provide protection from onerous contract clauses.
However, it's my understanding from various lawyer friends that the very act of knowing that a clause could be discarded as unconscionable may actually remove that as a defense. I would want to discuss the matter with a lawyer with lots of contract experience in my state before taking the route you suggest.
- tomasien 12y agoYou should always consult a lawyer and research rulings in your state - but in Virginia and many other states, the benefit of the doubt goes to a crazy degree to the person signing the non-competes, because non-competes are seen as (obviously) anti-competitive.