California Business and Professions

California Business and Professions Code, Chapter 9, Division 2, Pharmacy Law. Department of Consumer Affairs, Sacramento, California, 2006. 

The lack of a non-competition clause in the agreements derived from the employer survey apparently reflect a concern that such a clause might not be enforceable. In California, for example, the Business and Professions Code 16,600 voids such clauses. This provision was recently upheld by U. S. Supreme Court (4). In other jurisdictions, there is a substantial risk that a clause prohibiting a chemist from engaging in his profession with another employer would be ruled unenforceable as an unconscionable contract of adhesion. It seems the trend of the law is to recognize the doctrine of contracts of adhesion as being unenforceable. 

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