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Non-Competition Agreements; FTC Rule Status

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As we previously reported, on April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced their final rule banning most “non-competition” agreements. The FTC determined non-competition agreements were an unfair method of...more

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Texas District Court Sets Aside FTC Non-Compete Ban: What Employers Should Consider

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The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Non-Compete Rule, which was scheduled to become effective on September 4, 2024, was set aside last month by US District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v....more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Ban on the Run: Federal Court Blocks the FTC’s Non-Compete Ban Nationwide

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

Oliva Gibbs LLP

Texas Federal Judge Overturns Non-Compete Rule – What Energy Companies Should Do Next

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On August 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, overturned the FTC Non-Compete Rule (16 C.F.R. § 910.1-.6), which was set to ban all new non-compete agreements in the...more

Frantz Ward LLP

Update - FTC’s Noncompete Ban Blocked By Federal Judge

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A federal judge last Tuesday blocked the FTC’s controversial ban on noncompete agreements. The judge’s ruling ends months of speculation and prevents the FTC’s near-total ban on noncompete agreements from taking effect as...more

Dickinson Wright

Federal Judge Sets Aside the FTC’s Noncompete Ban

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Not so fast and not so final – for now. On August 20, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas sided with a plaintiff group comprised of a limited liability company, a...more

K&L Gates LLP

Challenge Denied: District Court Rules That FTC's Impending Nationwide Ban on Noncompetes Is Unlawful and Blocks Its...

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As previously alerted, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) voted 3-2 this past April to publish and issue a final rule that (1) bans for-profit employers from entering into agreements with workers that impose a...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

Legal Update: Court Halts Enforcement of FTC Non-Compete Final Rule

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

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

As Predicted, Judge Strikes Down FTC’s Noncompete Rule

As we predicted in our May 1, 2024 Client Alert, the Federal Trade Commission’s Noncompete Rule (the “Rule”) has been struck down on a nationwide basis. On August 20, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern...more

Alston & Bird

Noncompete Clauses Get a Reprieve from FTC Ban: What’s Next?

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As expected, a Texas federal court blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning noncompete clauses. Our Labor & Employment and Antitrust Groups break down the court’s reasoning and look ahead to what might come next....more

DLA Piper

Texas Federal Court Halts FTC Noncompete Rule for All Employers Nationwide

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On August 20, 2024, a federal court in Texas granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, setting aside and rendering unenforceable the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) rule banning...more

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Texas Federal Court Invalidates FTC’s Non-Compete Ban As Unconstitutional

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A federal judge in Texas has barred enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) new regulations, which otherwise would have banned most non-compete agreements. Holding that the FTC lacked statutory authority to...more

Baker Donelson

Non-Competes Still Play but Employers Need to Keep Their Eye on the Ball

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If you bet against the FTC's Rule banning non-competes, the odds in your favor just got better. A Texas federal court entered an order with nationwide effect, holding that the FTC Non-Compete Rule "shall not be enforced or...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Texas Court Invalidates FTC Ban on Non-Compete Agreements

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By now, employers across the country are aware of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) pending rule banning the vast majority of non-competition agreements on a national level (the “Rule”). We have been tracking the Rule...more

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Texas Federal Judge Strikes Down FTC’s Noncompete Ban

On August 20, 2024, Judge Ada Brown of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas set aside and barred the nationwide implementation and enforcement of the FTC’s Final Noncompete Rule....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

FTC Non-Compete Rule Blocked: Court Overturns FTC’s Ban on Non-Competes

On August 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide ruling blocking the implementation of the final Noncompete Rule (the “Final Rule”) announced by the U.S. Federal...more

Cohen & Gresser LLP

A Texas Court Strikes Down the FTC’s Non-Compete Rule: What’s Next?

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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

Foley Hoag LLP

Federal Judge Blocks FTC’s Noncompete Rule Nationwide

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On August 20, 2024, Judge Brown of the Northern District of Texas blocked the FTC’s Final Rule banning noncompetes. The decision comes just over a month after Judge Brown’s preliminary injunction order, which stayed the rule...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Texas Court Issues Nationwide Injunction Striking Down the FTC Noncompete Ban

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On August 20, 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction barring the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Final Rule that bans all noncompete agreements. The court’s findings...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Conflicting Orders Create Uncertainty for FTC Noncompete Ban

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On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission finalized its rule enforcing a noncompete ban for a vast majority of workers. The noncompete ban is set to take effect on September 4, 2024. With limited exceptions, the rule...more

Brooks Pierce

Pennsylvania Court Refuses to Halt Enforcement of FTC’s Final Rule, Diverging From Recent Texas Court Ruling

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On July 23, 2024 a Federal District Court in Pennsylvania denied an employer plaintiff’s efforts to temporarily halt implementation and enforcement of the FTC’s final rule banning “non-compete clauses” (the “Final Rule”). The...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Uncertainty Heightened as Two District Courts Reach Conflicting Conclusions on FTC Non-Compete Ban’s Enforceability

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Just weeks after a federal court in Texas held that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) exceeded its authority in issuing a rule banning nearly all non-compete agreement (and, therefore, the plaintiffs challenging that rule...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

District Court Finds in Favor of FTC, Declines to Issue Injunction

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) push to invalidate non-compete agreements for millions of workers gained steam today, courtesy of a ruling out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. As noted by this blog, in April of...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Federal Court Denies Plaintiffs’ Motion for Reconsideration Seeking Expanded Scope of Injunction Staying the FTC’s Noncompete Rule

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We previously reported that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Comm’n, Case No. 3:24-cv-00986-E, granted a preliminary injunction staying the Federal Trade Commission’s...more

A&O Shearman

FTC's non-compete rule in limbo following Texas District Court’s preliminary injunction

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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

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