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District Court Rules SpaceX Likely To Succeed in Challenging NLRB Constitutionality

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Judge Alan Albright of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas issued an order on July 23, 2024, granting Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) motion for a preliminary injunction after...more

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Texas Federal Judge Strikes Down FTC Non-Compete Ban

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Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Tuesday struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) pending ban on non-compete covenants, concluding that the issuance of the FTC’s Rule...more

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Federal Court Permanently Blocks Florida Restrictions on Workplace Diversity Training

On July 26, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida permanently blocked Florida’s Stop WOKE Act, which restricted the types of anti-harassment and antidiscrimination training that employers can...more

A&O Shearman

Federal Circuit Upholds Preliminary Injunction Barring Sale Of Cancer Test

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On July 12, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina granting a preliminary injunction that barred...more

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Preliminary Injunction Upheld in Cancer Relapse Detection Case

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the grant of a preliminary injunction (PI) in the biopharmaceutical space, concluding that the plaintiff satisfied the requirements for injunctive relief, including...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

Ballard Spahr LLP

Colorado appeals to Tenth Circuit from Federal District Court order granting plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction in...

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On the very last day for filing an appeal, the Colorado Attorney General and UCCC Administrator filed a Notice of Appeal to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals of the Colorado federal district court’s order in favor of the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Preliminary Injunction Halts Sales of Tumor-Informed Cancer Screening Test

Late last week in Natera, Inc. v. NeoGenomics Laboratories, Inc. (24-1324), the Federal Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction ruling from the lower court that mostly prohibits NeoGenomics from selling its oncology test...more

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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

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Title IX Regulations Enjoined in Four More States as Department of Education Appeals Earlier Injunctions

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On July 2, Judge John Broomes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas handed down yet another preliminary injunction blocking the Title IX regulations issued in April, following on the heels of similar orders...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Employers in Limbo After Ruling on FTC’s Non-Compete Ban

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Recent headlines implying a general a stay of the Federal Trade Commission’s non-compete rule are misleading. Here’s what employers need to know.  On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission approved a rule banning...more

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Texas Court Postpones FTC Noncompete Ban

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On July 3, 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas stayed the September 4, 2024, implementation date (the effective date) of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Final Rule that bans all new noncompete...more

Perkins Coie

Employers Left in Limbo by FTC Noncompete Decision

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In Ryan v. Federal Trade Commission, Federal District Court Judge Ada Brown released a much-anticipated preliminary injunction decision against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding its pending “Non-Compete Ban.” Case...more

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FTC Rule Addressing Noncompete Covenants: Impact of Senior Executive Exception on Health Care Entities

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The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Final Rule banning noncompete covenants for workers is likely to present particular challenges for employers in the health care industry. Because of the structural and organizational...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Federal Court Stays FTC’s Noncompete Ban, But Only for Named Plaintiffs

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On July 3, 2024, Judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas issued her highly anticipated decision in Ryan LLC v. FTC addressing plaintiff Ryan LLC’s motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to stay enforcement of...more

Dechert LLP

Federal Court Preliminarily Enjoins FTC Ban on Employee Non-Compete Agreements, But Not for the Vast Majority of Employers

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In April 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or the “Commission”) announced a Final Rule that would prohibit nearly all existing and future non-compete agreements between employers and workers, subject to specified...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

FTC’s Non-Compete Rule Enjoined for Now – But Only as to the Plaintiffs

On Wednesday, July 3, a Texas federal court enjoined the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule banning most noncompetes (the Noncompete Rule) and has stayed the implementation of the Noncompete Rule, but only as to the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FTC Non-Compete Ban Preliminarily Enjoined by Texas District Court

On July 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas enjoined the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from enforcing and implementing its rule banning non-competes and stayed the September 4 effective date...more

Holland & Hart LLP

FTC's Noncompete Ban On Hold…For Parties Involved in Lawsuit

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On July 3, 2024, a federal judge from the Northern District of Texas barred the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) from enforcing its Rule banning noncompete agreements and paused the Rule’s effective date of September 4, 2024....more

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FTC’s ban on noncompete agreements halted … sort of

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Earlier this spring, in an article titled “FTC announces nationwide ban on noncompetes in the workplace,” we alerted employers to the Federal Trade Commission’s approval of a final rule implementing a nationwide ban on...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New Developments on the FTC Noncompete Ban: Ryan, LLC v. FTC Decision

On July 3, 2024, in Ryan v. Federal Trade Commission, a district court in the Northern District of Texas preliminarily enjoined the implementation and enforcement against the plaintiff and plaintiffs-intervenors of a Federal...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

Texas Federal Judge Preliminarily Blocks Enforcement of FTC Non-Compete Rule

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On July 3, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown from the Northern District of Texas issued a decision, and subsequently a preliminary injunction, staying enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) non-compete ban...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Federal Court in Texas finds FTC Exceeded Its Authority With Noncompete Ban

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On July 3, 2024, a federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary injunction barring the FTC from enforcing its proposed near-absolute national ban on non-competition agreements. The Rule was scheduled to take effect September...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Not So “Final”? Texas Federal Court Enjoins Enforcement of FTC’s Noncompete Ban, Leaving Future of Commission’s Rule in Doubt

On July 3, District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas issued an order enjoining the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) from enforcing its “Final Rule” against plaintiffs Ryan, LLC (“Ryan”) and the U.S. Chamber...more

Butler Snow LLP

Texas Court Finds That FTC Noncompete Rule Is Invalid

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In a highly-anticipated ruling, a Texas federal court concluded on July 3, 2024, that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) exceeded its authority by enacting its rule in April 2024 that purports to ban nearly all noncompete...more

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