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Entertainment & Sports

Sep. 16, 2010

Agent Settles Non-Compete Case

A sports agent who sued his former agency to void a non-compete clause has settled the case, leaving the legal questions around such rivalries to be answered another day.

By Jean-Luc Renault

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A sports agent who sued his former agency to void a non-compete clause so he could work at a rival firm settled with his old employer, leaving the thorny legal questions surrounding agency defections to be decided another day.

Matthew Baldwin withdrew his lawsuit on Tuesday against former employer IMG Worldwide, a prominent, Cleveland-based sports agency that dropped...

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