On July 3, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the “Court”) in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission (“Ryan”) preliminarily enjoined the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) from...more
7/12/2024
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On August 25, 2023, in Deslandes v. McDonald’s, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a district court’s dismissal of an antitrust case that challenged no-hire and non-solicitation clauses in McDonald’s...more
Last week, the FTC announced two significant moves. First, the FTC brought its first major standalone Section 5 actions, targeting certain companies’ employment noncompete agreements as unfair methods of competition. The very...more
1/10/2023
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