J. M. Yasa Reddy v. Community Health

2. An employee covenant not to compete is unreasonable on its face of its time or area limitations are excessively broad, or where the covenant appears designed to intimidate employees rather than to protect the employers business, and a court should hold any such covenant void and unenforceable, and not undertake even a partial enforcement of it, bearing in mind, however, that a standard of "unreasonable on its face" is to be distinguished from the standard of "reasonableness" used in inquiries adopted by other authorities to address the minor instances of over-breadth to which restrictive covenants are naturally prone.