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...The lawsuit is a stark example of the use of non-competes by large corporations, even against low-level hourly wage workers....
...She was appointed as the first cyber security counsel for a major corporation, at IBM....
...big farm groups....
...Gone are the days when corporations such as Walmart or McDonald’s could dominate the discussion about their brands with a stream of 30-second advertisements on a small number of television networks....
...McDonald’s is phasing out fries in favour of fruit for its “Happy Meals”, acquiescing to calls from the US government and health activist groups to sell healthier food to children....
...What they would regard as the wrong ruling in the case could frighten foreign issuers away from US markets and dissuade overseas groups from doing business with US corporations, business groups say....
...In his spare time, Villa is a professor at Georgetown University Law School where he teaches a course entitled “Counseling the Corporation in Crisis”....
...Indeed, opinion polls at the time of the Pelman v McDonald's case showed that more than 80 per cent of the US public thought the case was frivolous....
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