Quick Guide to Administrative Hearings
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Prominent Journalist, David Dayen, Describes his Reporting on the Efforts of Trump 2.0 to Curb CFPB
The Loper Bright Decision - What Really Happened to Chevron and What's Next
Podcast - Legislative Implications of Loper Bright and Corner Post Decisions
#WorkforceWednesday®: After the Block - What’s Next for Employers and Non-Competes? - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Demise of the Chevron Doctrine – Part I
The End of Chevron Deference: Implications of the Supreme Court's Loper Bright Decision — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Down Goes Chevron: A 40-Year Precedent Overturned by the Supreme Court – Diagnosing Health Care
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Supreme Court Hears Two Cases in Which the Plaintiffs Seek to Overturn the Chevron Judicial Deference Framework: Who Will Win and What Does It Mean? Part II
The Future of Chevron Deference - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Hooper, Kearney and Macklin on Cutting Edge Topics in the False Claims Act
Part Two: The MFN Drug Pricing Rule and the Rebate Rule: Where Do We Go From Here?
Part One: Two new Medicare Drug Pricing Rules in One Day: What are the MFN and the Rebate Drug Pricing Rules?
Employment Law Now IV-78- BREAKING: US DOL Issues New Regulations After Federal Court Invalidated Old Regulations
Podcast - Developments in FDA & DOJ Regulation and Enforcement of Manufacturer Communications
Podcast - Chamber of Commerce v. Internal Revenue Service
In August 2024, a Texas federal court struck down a broad Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule that would have banned the vast majority of employee non-competition agreements. ...more
On Oct. 18, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) expectedly filed a notice of appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ryan LLC et.al. v. Federal Trade Commission. As has been previously reported, Judge Ada M. Brown in...more
This week, on our Spilling Secrets podcast series, our panelists delve into the implications for employers following the recent blockage of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) non-compete ban. On August 20, 2024, the U.S....more
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Non-Compete Rule, which was scheduled to become effective on September 4, 2024, was set aside last month by US District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v....more
This past April, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule (Rule) that amounted to a near total nationwide ban on employers’ use of non-compete agreements. Since its announcement, employers have actively attempted to...more
On August 20, 2024, a federal court in Texas granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, setting aside and rendering unenforceable the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) rule banning...more
For those of you who have been following along with the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) looming noncompete ban and the various challenges it has presented, there comes good news for employers from a Texas federal court....more
On Tuesday, August 20, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown granted summary judgment, in favor of blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) rule banning non-competes (the “Rule”). The Rule, which had been scheduled to go into...more
By now, employers across the country are aware of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) pending rule banning the vast majority of non-competition agreements on a national level (the “Rule”). We have been tracking the Rule...more
In Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Aug. 20, 2024, set aside the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Non-Compete Rule, as promulgated in 16 C.F.R. § 910.1-6...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rulemaking crusade suffered a serious blow this week, when Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas set aside the agency’s Final Rule that made most employment-related non-compete...more
As an update to our April 25, 2024 Client Alert, “FTC Issues New Rule—But Not the Final Chapter—on Non-Competes: What Employers Need to Know,” a federal court in Dallas, Texas has blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s Rule...more
As we explained in a previous client alert, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published a proposed final rule that would ban nearly all worker non-competes. The rule was scheduled to go into effect on September 4, 2024....more
A federal court in Texas has determined the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule prohibiting most noncompete agreements is unlawful, meaning that for now, employers in jurisdictions that permit such agreements can...more
On August 20, 2024, the Northern District of Texas issued its final ruling in Ryan, LLC. v. FTC on the merits of cross-motions for summary judgment, contesting the legality of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”)...more
Earlier this summer, Winstead’s Labor & Employment team reported that Judge Ada Brown in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction as applied only to the plaintiffs in Ryan LLC...more
The long awaited collision between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the varied political and legal opinions on the legality of Employment Non-Compete Agreements (Non-Competes) is now moving up the ladder of...more
In Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas enjoined the FTC from implementing or enforcing its noncompete ban (the “Final Rule”) mainly on the grounds that it exceeds...more
We previously reported that Ryan LLC (“Plaintiff”) and the United States Chamber of Commerce (“Plaintiff-Intervenor”), in anticipation of the Northern District of Texas’s merits disposition, would likely seek nationwide...more
We previously reported that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Comm’n, Case No. 3:24-cv-00986-E, granted a preliminary injunction staying the Federal Trade Commission’s...more
A first-in-nation ruling in Texas federal court casts serious doubt on the enforceability of the broad-reaching new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Noncompete Rule. For any company seeking to legitimately protect its...more
As reported on July 3 by the Polsinelli Labor & Employment practice group alert, by order dated July 3, 2024 the Northern District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction preventing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from...more
On Wednesday, July 3, 2024, a federal judge in Texas blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s rule that seeks an almost complete ban of non-compete agreements. In her ruling, Judge Ada Brown of the United States District Court...more
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas finally issued its long-awaited decision on the challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s Final Rule effectively banning most forms of noncompete...more
On July 3, 2024, in Ryan LLC et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a much-anticipated ruling on the final Noncompete Rule (the “Final Rule”) announced...more