(July 22, 2019, 10:04 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Seeking guidance in deciding whether California Business and Professions Code Section 16600 also applies to contracts between two businesses and whether the requirement that a plaintiff must plead an independently wrongful act to allege a claim for intentional interference with an at-will employment contract falls outside of the employment context, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 16 certified two questions to the California Supreme Court (Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc., No. 18-15258, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 20997)....