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.

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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, ...

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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 ...

Years-long research documented more than 80,000 properties with racial restrictive covenants across Washington.

As any employment practitioner is aware, the granting of injunctive relief with respect to the enforcement of a restrictive covenant is far from automatic. Thus, it is critically important that the ...

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We've had an offer accepted on a house. It is owned by the diocese, so we're buying it from the church. I bought a copy of the title register from the Land Registry website and in it, it mentions a ...

This Woodcrest covenant states that only detached, single-family, two-and-a-half-story homes can be built in the subdivision. The George Building Company recorded the covenants in the Wake County ...