Sunday, November 4, 2007

Mother Goose strikes again

Reading a lot of cases for my legal memo in the hopes that one of them will provide better insight than I currently have on non-competition covenants in NY contracts. Anyway, I am in the middle of reading one about an executive at MTV who may have breached his contract in attempting to switch over to Fox Kids and here is an excerpt:

Once Cronin signed the contract with Fox Kids, after having been warned [...] not to sign, he had irreversibly breached his employment agreement with MTVN. In other words, "All the king's horses and all the king's men, couldn't put Humpty together again."

Was the judge trying to be cute? You'll notice it's quoted but there is no citation listed. I want to know the edition of the nursery rhyme book he got that from. but more importantly, where the hell did that reference come from? What a strange way of saying that an executive irreversibly breached his contract. Not done with the case yet, but I am definitely crossing my fingers and hoping for some more good mother goose references. Like maybe, if he decides to abandon the whole thing, the court can say - In other words, "Along came a spider (lawsuit) and sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away."

1 comment:

Unknown said...

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