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And even in the proper State.
The described portion of the case is preceeding under Washington law, but even under Washington law, an employee friendly State, there are valid reasons why a contract may be said "not to conflict". The contract can be adjudged valid, but rendered impotent. Even once the jurisdictional dispute is settled the case may still go Google's way, but the chances are 40:60. There's still not enough evidence on the table.

I reitterate, I neither know, nor care of the result of this case: so long as it stays over non-compete. As a matter of practice, I regularly strike non-compete clauses in excess of 6 months from my employment agreements and modify assignment clauses to fit State law. Believe you me, I've seen some doozies in the way of employer's attempted taking! Microsoft's employment agreement has not yet been documented to be all that bad, but I'd certainly strike a few of the described clauses and negotiate others.

Lee should have, but that's neither here nor there. Our opinion doesn't matter. The opinion of the judges in Washington and California do.
Posted by: John Le'Brecage   Posted on: 09/07/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Where's Anton?  Richard Flude | 09/06/05
Nice evidence!  ShadeTree | 09/07/05
That's what it is: evidence!  John Le'Brecage | 09/07/05
Deterrence from leaving versus incentive to stay  hsuwh | 09/07/05
Bad publicity from this suit will discourage the best from working at MS  DonnieBoy | 09/07/05
Will discourage, has discouraged, and is discouraging  hsuwh | 09/07/05
Lawyers spar at Microsoft-Google hearing  Loverock Davidson | 09/07/05
And you base this on?  John Le'Brecage | 09/07/05
On the evidence  Loverock Davidson | 09/07/05
It is a FACT that Lee signed the agreement. But,  DonnieBoy | 09/07/05
No BUT to it...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/07/05
Evidence must be properly evaluated, or else it's worthless  John Le'Brecage | 09/07/05
And even in the proper State.  John Le'Brecage | 09/07/05
And, MS could win the case, but lose the public relations battle.  DonnieBoy | 09/07/05
depends on what they are loosing  john.gruber@... | 09/07/05
Microsoft is just playing right into Googles hand here.  DonnieBoy | 09/07/05
Keep dreaming...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/07/05
The opinion on the stret is that Google is in, Microsoft is out.  DonnieBoy | 09/07/05
that claim  Real World | 09/08/05
Nothing new  nomorems | 09/07/05
Trying to sully Google's rep  hsuwh | 09/07/05

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