The enforceability of restrictive covenants in the United States is currently governed by state law, although that may change if federal rules or legislation are enacted to address such covenants.

Those planning a new farm-based venture should check for any legal restrictions first, say advisers. These can include ...

Employers rely on these provisions not only to protect trade secrets and client relationships, but to protect the return on their substantial investments in employee training. At the same time, ...

A Raleigh developer wants to build 12 four-story townhouses at 524 and 528 Barksdale Drive in east Raleigh’s Woodcrest subdivision. The city has approved the project but Steve Sypher, owner of Steve ...

Using a restrictive covenant in a 1938 deed, neighbors in the Tara-Leeway Heights neighborhood convinced a developer to build a single-family home instead of a duplex. The home, 1313 N. Harrison ...

A new, time-lapse video map shows how racially restrictive covenants rapidly spread across Wake Country from 1906 to 1950. First, it’s just a small cluster of red dots — each representing a ...

Restrictive covenants affecting land can prevent a development from proceeding as planned, or possibly at all.

Even companies that diligently prepare non-competes and other restrictive covenants for their employees to sign often miss some of the essential steps necessary to ensure those agreements will later ...

Employee restrictive covenants, legal agreements between employers and employees, have long protected businesses. These covenants safeguard the employer's legitimate interests related to trade secrets ...

Judge invalidates restrictive covenant against neurosurgeon, finding it imposes an undue burden on him. Judge cites surgeon's difficulties finding work and his drop in income after he was let go.