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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

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Ramifications of Ryan: The Future of the FTC’s Final Rule Banning Non-Competes

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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

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Texas Court Puts a Stop to FTC's Non-Compete Ban

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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

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FTC’s Ban on Noncompete Agreements Is Blocked

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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

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August Tip of the Month: Court Blocks FTC Rule Banning Employment-Related Noncompete Agreements

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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

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FTC Rule Banning Non-Competes Found Unenforceable

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The Decision - On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, employers throughout the country breathed a sigh of relief when a federal trial judge in Dallas struck down the FTC’s rule banning non-competes. It brought to a conclusion a...more

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United States District Court Blocks FTC's Final Rule Banning Non-Compete Agreements

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

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FTC Ban on Non-Competes Thwarted by Texas Federal Court

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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

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

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A Win for Employers: Judge Blocks FTC’s Non-Compete Ban Nationwide

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On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, Judge Ada E. Brown, a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, delivered a nationwide victory to businesses and employers across the country when she granted Ryan LLC (a...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

CLIENT ALERT: Texas Court Blocks FTC Non-Compete Ban—By a Nose

A Texas federal court has struck down the FTC’s proposed nationwide ban on non-compete agreements, just weeks before it was set to take effect. This decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of...more

Snell & Wilmer

Texas Court’s Non-Compete Decision Good for Business

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In welcome news to the business community, a federal judge in Texas invalidated the Federal Trade Commission’s attempted ban of non-compete agreements. “The role of an administrative agency is to do as told by Congress, not...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

FTC’s Noncompete Ban Set Aside by Federal Court

On Wednesday, August 20, 2024, a federal judge in Texas set aside the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Rule banning the use of noncompete agreements in employment, which was set to take effect on September 4, 2024. The judge...more

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Court strikes down the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on non-compete agreements

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Just two weeks before the Federal Trade Commission’s nationwide ban on non-compete agreements was set to go into effect, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas struck down the FTC’s non-compete rules. For...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

LaborSpeak: Texas Court Strikes Down FTC’s Non-Compete Ban on Nationwide Basis

On August 20, the Northern District of Texas held that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule banning non-competes was unlawful and set the rule aside on a nationwide basis.  As a result, the rule will not be enforced or...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Ryan LLC v. FTC: Texas Federal Court Strikes Down FTC's Prohibition on Non-Competes

On August 20, 2024, Judge Ada E. Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, a lawsuit challenging...more

Ruder Ware

Breaking News: Federal Court Halts FTC Noncompete Ban!

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Today, a federal court judge in Dallas, Texas, ruled  the Federal Trade Commission went too far in issuing its nationwide noncompete ban that was set to become effective September 4, 2024....more

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Not So Fast – Federal Judge Strikes Down FTC Noncompete Ban, Status Quo for Now

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The FTC’s highly publicized nationwide ban on noncompetes is on hold. The federal rule, which was originally scheduled to go into effect on Sept. 4, was struck down yesterday by a federal court in Texas. The court’s ruling...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FTC's Non-Compete Rule Is Set Aside—Nationwide

In one of the most highly anticipated court rulings of the summer, on August 20, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas concluded that the FTC's Non-Compete Rule, which makes most non-compete...more

Dechert LLP

FTC’s Non-Compete Rule Blocked by Texas Federal Court

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On August 20, 2024, a federal district court in Texas issued a permanent injunction blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s “Non-Compete Rule,” which would have prohibited nearly all non-compete clauses with workers. The...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

District Court Voids FTC Rule Prohibiting Non-Compete Agreements

Employers nationwide have for months grappled with how to address the FTC’s April 23, 2024 rule prohibiting post-termination non-competition agreements in employment contracts (“FTC Rule”). On Tuesday, August 20, the United...more

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After Months of Uncertainty, a Federal Court Has Blocked the FTC’s Non-Compete Rule on a Nationwide Basis

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A judge in the Northern District of Texas issued an order setting aside the Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning non-compete agreements and ordered that the rule shall not be enforced or otherwise take effect on September...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Court Strikes Down FTC Ban on Non-Competition Agreements

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On August 20, 2024, a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) exceeded its authority when it adopted a regulation essentially banning non-competition agreements in the United States. ...more

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US District Court Sets Aside the FTC’s Noncompete Ban on a Nationwide Basis

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On August 20, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas held that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule banning noncompetes is unlawful and “set aside” the rule. “The Rule shall not be enforced or...more

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers

The FTC’s Noncompete Ban Is Dead—For Now

Employers finally have the answer they’ve been waiting for: they don’t need to comply with the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Rule banning noncompete agreements—for now....more

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