While many states recently have enacted laws making it harder for employers to enforce noncompetes, Florida is bucking the trend by enacting some of the strongest noncompete protections in the country. The newly enacted...more
7/15/2025
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Trade Secrets
United States District Court Acquits all Defendants in US v. Patel -
On April 28, 2023, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut acquitted the defendants in US v. Patel of the charges of conspiring...more
Recently, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted another public forum on its proposed rule to ban noncompetition agreements (noncompetes). While the public forum provided opportunity to those for and against noncompetes to...more
Since the first edition of this outline was published in 2009 and the second and third editions were published in 2014 and 2017, Illinois case law addressing the protection of confidential and trade secret information has...more