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The First Ruling Is In: FTC Noncompete Rule Enjoined - But No Nationwide Impact

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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

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FTC Advises Copyright Office on AI — AI: The Washington Report

Welcome to this week's issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies. The accelerating advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”) and the practical,...more

Fisher Phillips

White House Issues Sweeping AI Executive Order: 10 Things Employers Need to Know

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The executive order on artificial intelligence issued by the White House yesterday is the federal government’s most ambitious attempt to date to corral this burgeoning technology – and contains numerous items of interest for...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

FTC Seeks to Ban Non-Compete Agreements: What You Need to Know

On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed its long-awaited new rule banning non-compete agreements. This was an anticipated event after a July 9, 2021, executive order from President Biden that directed...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

The Federal Trade Commission Proposes Ban on Employer-Worker Non-Compete Agreements

On Jan. 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule) seeking to categorically ban nearly all employer non-competition agreements nationwide. If passed in its draft form,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Kanter Signals DOJ to Follow FTC Lockstep, Calls for Substantial Change to Competition Enforcement Approach

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In remarks delivered on January 18, 2022, and January 24, 2022, Jonathan Kanter, the Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, laid out the areas where he perceives...more

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Antitrust Concerns for Employers

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In July of 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14036, which affirmed the executive branch’s policy to enforce antitrust laws. Two aspects of the Order relate directly to employment law...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Noncompete Laws: 2021 Year in Review

Key Points - President Biden’s July 9, 2021 executive order encouraged the FTC to exercise its statutory rulemaking authority to curtail the unfair use of noncompete agreements. Effective March 1, 2022, a person who...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

FTC Announces First Step Towards Regulation of Employee Non-Competes

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As we have noted previously, on July 9, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. Among many other things, this Executive Order calls on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Be Prepared: Aggressive Antitrust Enforcement Is Back

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This summer has seen a flurry of bold antitrust announcements from the Biden administration. By issuing a sweeping executive order calling for numerous changes to antitrust enforcement and by naming progressive favorites and...more

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Biden Administration Executive Order Would Expand Regulatory Intervention in Markets Across the Economy

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President Biden recently signed an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy (the "Order") outlining 72 initiatives by more than a dozen federal agencies to combat "excessive" corporate consolidation...more

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Biden Signs Sweeping Executive Order Designed to Expand Antitrust Regulation and Increase Enforcement

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On July 9, 2021 President Biden signed a sweeping executive order aimed at promoting competition in the United States by calling on federal agencies to promptly address what the administration views as “some of the most...more

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