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  "card_id": "seed-noncompete-002",
  "slug": "can-a-us-employer-enforce-a-non-compete-in-california-seed002-v1",
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  "supersedes_card_id": null,
  "question": "Can a US employer enforce a non-compete in California?",
  "question_hash": "sha256-v1:fixture-noncompete",
  "normalization_version": "1",
  "created_at": "2026-08-01T12:10:00Z",
  "domain": "law",
  "consensus": {
    "agreement_count": 2,
    "valid_response_count": 3,
    "confidence": "medium",
    "resolved_answer": "California generally voids employee non-competes, with narrow statutory exceptions and ongoing federal/state policy change risk.",
    "crux": "Whether any remaining exception or out-of-state choice-of-law theory survives California public policy.",
    "limitations": "Not legal advice. Jurisdiction and role facts change outcomes."
  },
  "responses": [
    {
      "slot": 1,
      "provider": "openai",
      "model": "fixture-openai",
      "status": "succeeded",
      "verdict": "no",
      "confidence": 0.84,
      "key_claims": [
        "California Business and Professions Code §16600 broadly voids employee non-competes."
      ],
      "reasoning": "California statute and case law treat most employee non-competes as void.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Example California statute summary",
          "url": "https://example.com/law/ca-16600",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-08-01T12:10:00Z"
        }
      ],
      "is_dissent": false,
      "latency_ms": 1800,
      "error_code": null
    },
    {
      "slot": 2,
      "provider": "anthropic",
      "model": "fixture-anthropic",
      "status": "succeeded",
      "verdict": "no",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "key_claims": [
        "Recent California amendments further restrict non-compete use and notice duties."
      ],
      "reasoning": "Employers face both voidness and affirmative compliance duties.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Example legislative update",
          "url": "https://example.com/law/ca-updates",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-08-01T12:10:00Z"
        }
      ],
      "is_dissent": false,
      "latency_ms": 2000,
      "error_code": null
    },
    {
      "slot": 3,
      "provider": "google",
      "model": "fixture-google",
      "status": "succeeded",
      "verdict": "it_depends",
      "confidence": 0.5,
      "key_claims": [
        "Sale-of-business and a few statutory exceptions can still apply."
      ],
      "reasoning": "Narrow exceptions exist, so a blanket never is imprecise.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Example exceptions note",
          "url": "https://example.com/law/exceptions",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-08-01T12:10:00Z"
        }
      ],
      "is_dissent": true,
      "latency_ms": 1750,
      "error_code": null
    }
  ],
  "divergence": {
    "verdict_split": true,
    "confidence_spread": 0.34,
    "conflicting_claims": [],
    "judge_invoked": true
  },
  "publication": {
    "visibility": "public_atlas",
    "published_at": "2026-08-01T12:15:00Z",
    "atlas_eligible": true,
    "grounded": true,
    "robots": "index,follow",
    "exclusion_reasons": [],
    "featured": true
  },
  "execution": {
    "completed_model_count": 3,
    "total_latency_ms": 2000,
    "cost_usd": 0.0029
  }
}