This Law Firm Publication by Epstein Becker Green addresses Medix Staffing Solutions Inc. v. Dumrauf, in which a federal district court in Illinois held that a noncompete prohibiting employment in any capacity at another company in the same industry is unenforceable. The plaintiff argued that the restrictive covenant would prevent him from even working as a janitor at another company. The court described the example as far-fetched, but held the restriction unenforceable on its face and declined to modify the overbroad provision.