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gher-shyu3i on April 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under pers...

Why only CA? Shouldn't it be that "the law" overrides illegal contracts - basically a tautology? Otherwise, what's stopping anyone from writing illegal contracts and forcing the other party to abide by them?

__jem on April 20, 2021 [–]

Because the basis of every state's contract laws are different. Something are illegal in CA but not in NY.

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