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Elite Model Management Restrictive-Covenant Injunction Defeated - Carton

Preliminary-injunction and non-solicitation relief defeated/vacated; defendants awarded $811,881.21 in costs and attorneys' fees.

Denlea & Carton represented Elite Model Management-New York LLC in a New York dispute brought by Men Women N.Y. Model Management and Elite World after employees and models left Men Women and joined Elite. Plaintiffs asserted breach-of-contract and tortious-interference claims involving non-solicitation and non-compete restrictions and sought emergency injunctive relief. The court denied preliminary-injunction relief against Elite and later vacated provisional non-solicitation relief after plaintiffs failed to timely commence arbitration under CPLR 7502(c); the First Department affirmed, and the Supreme Court subsequently awarded the defendants $811,881.21 in costs and attorneys' fees.