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This Alert is the latest installment in our reporting on the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) 2024 rule banning non-competes and the future of the Commission’s strategy for regulating the use of restrictive covenants in the...more
Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the state level. Check out our new FTC Consumer...more
On September 4, 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission filed an enforcement action and simultaneous proposed settlement against a pet cremation company for abuse of employer-employee post-termination non-competes as an...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) non-compete rule may be effectively dead, but the agency’s focus on non-compete agreements is very much alive. In February, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson launched a Joint Labor Task Force...more
On February 26, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced the formation of a Joint Labor Task Force aimed at addressing deceptive, unfair, and anticompetitive practices impacting labor markets. The FTC signaled an...more
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v. FTC granted summary judgment “setting aside” the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) Final Rule banning non-compete clauses between employers and...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
The Federal Trade Commission’s Final Rule banning non-competes will not take effect on September 4, 2024. On August 20, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown for the Northern District of Texas ruled on the merits of the...more
On August 20, 2024, a Texas Federal Court issued a nationwide bar on the enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) rule banning nearly all non-compete agreements (the “Final Rule”), which, as we have previously...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to ban noncompete agreements suffered a serious blow when a federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction blocking the ban’s enforcement. Implementation of the ban could disrupt...more
On August 20, 2024, a Texas district court issued a decision blocking a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Rule, which would have banned employment-related noncompete agreements....more
The Decision - On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, employers throughout the country breathed a sigh of relief when a federal trial judge in Dallas struck down the FTC’s rule banning non-competes. It brought to a conclusion a...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced the “Final Non-Compete Clause Rule” banning most post-employment non-compete clauses between employers and employees. The final rule was set to take effect on...more
Since it was announced in May 2024, the impending FTC ban on non-competes has been mired in controversy. The Rule, which was set to go into effect on September 4, 2024, was intended to ban nearly all non-competition...more
On August 20, 2024, in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas entered summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs and set aside the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC)...more
On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, Judge Ada E. Brown, a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, delivered a nationwide victory to businesses and employers across the country when she granted Ryan LLC (a...more
A Texas federal court has struck down the FTC’s proposed nationwide ban on non-compete agreements, just weeks before it was set to take effect. This decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of...more
In welcome news to the business community, a federal judge in Texas invalidated the Federal Trade Commission’s attempted ban of non-compete agreements. “The role of an administrative agency is to do as told by Congress, not...more
On Wednesday, August 20, 2024, a federal judge in Texas set aside the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Rule banning the use of noncompete agreements in employment, which was set to take effect on September 4, 2024. The judge...more
Just two weeks before the Federal Trade Commission’s nationwide ban on non-compete agreements was set to go into effect, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas struck down the FTC’s non-compete rules. For...more
On August 20, the Northern District of Texas held that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule banning non-competes was unlawful and set the rule aside on a nationwide basis. As a result, the rule will not be enforced or...more
On August 20, 2024, Judge Ada E. Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, a lawsuit challenging...more
Today, a federal court judge in Dallas, Texas, ruled the Federal Trade Commission went too far in issuing its nationwide noncompete ban that was set to become effective September 4, 2024....more
The FTC’s highly publicized nationwide ban on noncompetes is on hold. The federal rule, which was originally scheduled to go into effect on Sept. 4, was struck down yesterday by a federal court in Texas. The court’s ruling...more
In one of the most highly anticipated court rulings of the summer, on August 20, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas concluded that the FTC's Non-Compete Rule, which makes most non-compete...more