Bennett v. Medtronic, Inc., 285 F.3d 801 (9th Cir. 2002)

Medtronic, Inc. sued three of its former California employees and their new employer, NuVasive, in Tennessee following the employees’ resignation from Medtronic and acceptance of employment with NuVasive, one of Medtronic’s competitors in the business of designing and manufacturing spinal surgery devices. Among other things, Medtronic sought to enforce a non-competition agreement the employees…