Nevada Supreme Court Upholds Blue Penciling Of NonCompete
By EsqSocial Corporation 02/02/21
In Golden Road Motor Inn, Inc. v. Islam, 132 Nev. 476, 488, 376 P.3d 151, 159 (2016), the Nevada Supreme Court held that district courts cannot, on their own, blue-pencil a noncompetition agreement to remove unreasonably restrictive, and thus unenforceable, aspects. See Nevada Supreme Court Refuses To "Blue Pencil" Unreasonable Non-Compete The Nevada legislature was not in accord and the following year enacted NRS 613.195, which requires district courts to blue-pencil unreasonable...
By: Allen Matkins