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Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a certain industry or locale. The purpose of these agreements is to protect employers or business purchasers from competition stemming from former employees or former owners of a business. less -

FTC Requests Stay of Appeals to Challenges to FTC Non-Compete Rule Citing New Administration

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/12/2025

On March 7, 2025, lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed motions requesting a 120-day stay of the agency’s appeal of district court decisions in the Fifth Circuit and Eleventh Circuit, which had blocked the...more

Another Federal District Court Enjoins FTC Noncompete Rule, but the Rule’s Effective Date Still Looms

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/19/2024

On August 14, 2024, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida ruled against the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) efforts to implement a nationwide noncompete ban. The Florida court’s decision...more

Courts Wrestle over FTC's Noncompete Ban

Fenwick & West LLP on 8/19/2024

The Federal Trade Commission's controversial ban on noncompete agreements is getting competing receptions in federal court. A Pennsylvania federal district court recently ruled that the FTC acted within its authority in...more

FTC Ban on Worker Non-Compete Agreements Enjoined by U.S. District Court Judge

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP on 7/12/2024

On July 3, 2024, a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas granted a stay and preliminary injunction on the United States Federal Trade Commission’s near-total ban on noncompete agreements. See Ryan v....more

First Court to Address FTC Non-Compete Rule Finds it Unlawful - But Limits Injunction to Parties

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 7/9/2024

On July 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a limited stay and preliminary injunction of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) final rule making unlawful virtually all non-compete...more

Texas Federal Court Temporarily Blocks FTC Non-Compete Rule for a Limited Group of Employers – Now What?

Saul Ewing LLP on 7/8/2024

As most employers are aware, and as we previously discussed in an April blog post, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) enacted a sweeping administrative rule banning the vast majority of non-competition agreements in the...more

Texas District Court Narrowly Stays and Enjoins FTC’s Non-Compete Rule

Littler on 7/5/2024

On July 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission issued a limited stay and preliminary injunction of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) final rule that...more

Texas Court Declines to Grant Nationwide Stay and Preliminary Injunction Regarding FTC Noncompete Ban

Fenwick & West LLP on 7/5/2024

Wednesday, a federal district court in Texas granted, in part and only as to certain named parties, a motion to stay and enjoin the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from implementing or enforcing its controversial rule banning...more

Fifth Circuit Affirms Federal Court’s Injunction Of State Court Proceeding That Attempted To Stay Arbitration

Carlton Fields on 5/7/2018

The case originated from the alleged violation of a noncompete and nonsolicitation agreement between the Shaw Group, later partially acquired by Aptim Corporation, and Dorsey McCall, its former employee. ...more

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