This is a graded discussion: $10$ points possible

Week $5$ Discussion Forum

due Feb $11$

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Alan and Magsie were good friends who both were in the Legal Studies program at Highline College together. After graduating, Alan got a job with a top law firm, Smith Jones and Jacobs, PLLC$,$ in Seattle. Maggie got a job in Amazon's legal department. Alan's law firm worked for Amazon and he worked with Maggie on several large projects. While working together on these large and sensitive projects for $5$ years, both learned trade secrets valuable to Amazon. Both Alan and Maggie signed one$-$year contracts with their respective employers. The contracts contained clauses that provided that they would not compete against their former employers for a period of four years after leaving their jobs. The area covered by the restrictions for both Alan and Maggie was a radius of $1,000$ miles from their places of employment.

Alan and Maggie talked about these trade secrets and decided to open their own business to profit from their work and knowledge of the trade secrets$.$ Alan and Maggie resigned and opened their business within $75$ miles of their old jobs. The business and their work are similar to their old jobs. Amazon and Smith, Jones and Jacobs sued both Alan ad Maggie to enforce the non$-$compete covenants in the original contracts Alan and Maggie signed. Discuss the probable outcome of the lawsuits.

$5$ points for the first answer and $5$ points for the reply answer. Fully explain and support your answer, and you must provide at least one example. Examples can be real cases, cases$/$fact patterns from the book, or hypotheticals. It is helpful if you use the word "Example" in your answer and format your answer so I can easily see and read your example. Also, it helps to cite your work.