| license: cc-by-4.0 | |
| pretty_name: US Non-Compete Clause Enforceability - Verified Court Holdings | |
| language: | |
| - en | |
| task_categories: | |
| - text-classification | |
| - text-retrieval | |
| tags: | |
| - legal | |
| - non-compete | |
| - employment-law | |
| - case-law | |
| - united-states | |
| - legal-analytics | |
| size_categories: | |
| - n<1K | |
| # US Non-Compete Clause Enforceability - Verified Court Holdings | |
| A primary-source-cited dataset of how U.S. courts have actually ruled on employee **non-compete (restrictive-covenant) clauses** - each outcome quoted verbatim from, and linked to, the source opinion. **76 verified holdings across 30 U.S. states** (snapshot 2026-07-05). | |
| Published by Cedarstone Ventures LLC, maker of **[ClauseDelta](https://clausedelta.com)**. The live, continuously-updated version - with a free clause checker covering all 51 U.S. jurisdictions - is at **[clausedelta.com](https://clausedelta.com)**. Methodology: **[clausedelta.com/methodology.html](https://clausedelta.com/methodology.html)**. | |
| ## Source and method | |
| Holdings are extracted from published U.S. court opinions (via CourtListener / the Free Law Project; public domain) behind a deterministic provenance gate: the quoted clause language and the court's disposition must be exact substrings of the source opinion before a holding is marked verified. Enforceability context for all 51 jurisdictions draws on the Bishara/Johnson NCA Enforceability Index. | |
| ## Files | |
| - `non_compete_enforceability_holdings.csv` / `.json` - the 76 holdings (state, outcome, verbatim holding text, citation, source URL, decided date, confidence band). | |
| - `data_dictionary.md` - field definitions. | |
| ## Use and citation | |
| CC-BY-4.0. **Informational only - not legal advice.** Please cite ClauseDelta (https://clausedelta.com) and the underlying court opinions. | |