TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 10 P18

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 10 P18 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 158 UNFAIR COMPETITION distributor all frequently reduce their relationships to contractual terms. These contractual relationships create an expectation of mutual performance that each party will perform its part under the contract s terms. Protection of these relationships from outside interference facilitates performance and helps stabilize commercial undertakings. Interference with contractual relations upsets expectations destabilizes commercial affairs and increases the costs of doing business by involving competitors in petty squabbles or litigation. Virtually any contract whether written or oral qualifies for protection from unreasonable interference. Noncompetition contracts are a recurrent source of litigation in this area of law. These contracts commonly arise in professional employment settings where an employer requires a skilled employee to sign an agreement promising not to go to work for a competitor in the same geographic market. Such agreements are generally enforceable unless they operate to deprive an employee of the right to meaningfully pursue a livelihood. An employee who chooses to violate a noncompetition contract is guilty of breach of contract and the business that lured the employee away may be held liable for interfering with an existing contractual relationship in violation of the law of unfair competition. Informal trade relations that have not been reduced to contractual terms are also protected from outside interference. The law of unfair competition prohibits businesses from intentionally inflicting injury upon a competitor s informal business relations through improper means or for an improper purpose. Improper means include the use of violence undue influence and coercion to threaten competitors or intimidate customers. For example it is illegal for a business to blockade the entryway to a competitor s shop or impede the delivery of supplies with a show of force. The mere refusal to deal with a competitor however is not considered

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