July was a busy month for courts analyzing the FTC’s rulemaking authority. In April, the FTC published its final rule banning most employment-based noncompetition agreements (the Noncompete Rule). Immediately after the FTC...more
On July 23, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued a decision in ATS Tree Services, LLC v. FTC, which held that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had the authority to issue its...more