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From: mpr@mb2c.UUCP (Mark Reina)
Newsgroups: net.ai,net.legal
Subject: Re: Non-competition clauses
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Date: Tue, 24-Apr-84 13:32:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 24 13:32:15 1984
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I recently read the story of a poor Boulder, CO medical doctor.
On the net, it appears that the courts enforced a non-competition
clause and consequently forced the doctor out of Boulder.

This story lacks much necesarry information before the reader can
fully appreciate what the writer has on his mind.  First, is this
a veiled criticism of a non-competition clause.  Secondly, is this
a laudation of the non-competition clause.

I find reading these third person recounts most distressing.
Did the doctor willingly sign a contract containing a non-com-
petition clause?  Was the doctor a specialist?  How big is Boulder?
How many doctors are there in Boulder?  Was the doctor really barred
from practicing in Boulder? Did the doctor move away or practice
elsewhere of his volition?   True these are tedious questions.
Possibly they avoid a more dramatic conclusion than can be imagined
without there resolution.  However, the practice of law and completion
of litigation would both require and demand answers to such questions.
Without the answers readers of the net, as well as judges and juries,
can not ascertain whether equity was served.