A New Jersey appeals court has brandished its “blue pencil” to modify terms of ADP’s restrictive covenants that it determined were overly broad.

The appeals court reversed orders in cases involving three former ADP employees whose restrictive covenants were found so broad they were deemed unenforceable by a trial court. The appeals court also reversed decisions in three other cases where terms of the ADP restrictive covenants were not found unenforceable, but where the trial court made extensive modifications that were deemed too far-reaching on appeal.