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A reconstituted Federal Trade Commission (Commission) has asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to grant it a 60-day continuance to consider whether to drop the defense of its rule banning noncompetes. As previously...more
This past week, the FTC appealed a Texas federal court’s August ruling that blocked nationwide enforcement of the non-compete ban. The non-compete ban will remain blocked during the pendency of the appeal process. However,...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s (the FTC) rule prohibiting the entering into or enforcement of non-compete clauses between employers and employees (the Non-Compete Rule) made final in April 2024 and originally scheduled to go...more
On Aug. 20, a new federal court decision from the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission halted enactment of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Rule banning noncompete agreements throughout the...more
With further proceedings anticipated, and in light of the numerous state law restrictions on non-competes, employers should continue to act with caution when presenting employees with non-compete agreements. On August 20,...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
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
A Federal Court has blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s Final Rule (the “Rule”) that was set to broadly ban nearly all forms of non-compete agreements. On August 20, 2024, Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of...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 August 20, 2024, Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a nationwide injunction setting aside the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) rule banning most non-compete clauses in...more
Following extensive briefing from Ryan LLC (Ryan), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Chamber), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and briefs from dozens of amicus curiae, the United States District Court for the Northern District...more