Court Grants Microsoft Injunction Against Google
For those of you keeping up, Google hired former Microsoft Vice President of speech recognition technology Kai-Fu Lee to head up Google's operations in China. Microsoft sued Google and Lee, claiming the new position would violate Lee's non-compete agreement with Microsoft. The state court just granted Microsoft's request for a temporary injunction preventing Lee from starting work at Google similar to the work he performed at Microsoft.
Why is this important (besides just seeing two of the biggest new economy companies duking it out publicly over an executive)? Because juries do read the newspaper, and form their own opinions about what the law should be. If you have an employer-employee dispute, you need to consider that this is the kind of baggage that the potential jury pool brings in.