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As an update to our April 25, 2024 Client Alert, “FTC Issues New Rule—But Not the Final Chapter—on Non-Competes: What Employers Need to Know,” a federal court in Dallas, Texas has blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s Rule...more
On July 23, 2024, U.S. District Court Judge Kelley Brisbon Hodge (E.D. Pa) denied the request of ATS Tree Services, LLC (ATS).[1], a tree care company operating in Eastern Pennsylvania, for issuance of a stay of the Sept. 4,...more
On July 8, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) designation of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), along with their salts and isomers, as hazardous substances under the...more
In Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas enjoined the FTC from implementing or enforcing its noncompete ban (the “Final Rule”) mainly on the grounds that it exceeds...more
We previously reported that Ryan LLC (“Plaintiff”) and the United States Chamber of Commerce (“Plaintiff-Intervenor”), in anticipation of the Northern District of Texas’s merits disposition, would likely seek nationwide...more
On July 3, 2024, a federal court in the Northern District of Texas issued an injunction against enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning non-compete agreements (the “Rule”). The Rule was to become effective...more
On Wednesday, July 3, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission granted a limited stay of the effective date for the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule on...more
On July 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas entered an order enjoining the enforcement of a rule established by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) abolishing the vast majority of employee...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s final rule banning non-competes was published in the Federal Register Tuesday, potentially becoming effective on September 4, 2024. The new rule would prohibit employers from imposing...more
The Noncompete Rule - On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), issued a Final Rule banning all noncompete agreements for any worker in the United States, regardless of industry, title, job function, or...more
Following an extended public comment period that began in January of 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted Tuesday, April 23 to implement a new rule that would effectively ban non-compete agreements nationwide,...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a controversial rule change to its longstanding “joint employer rule” in October of 2023, which dramatically lowered the thresholds by which a company could be deemed jointly...more
On January 2, 2024, McDermott filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) and the United States Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) in United Behavioral Health v. David K., No. 23-586, in the US...more
On December 19, 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion and judgment vacating (the “Judgment”) the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization rule (the...more
As readers may recall, on October 31, 2023 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Chamber of Commerce v. SEC ruled that the SEC acted arbitrarily and capriciously, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, when it...more
On November 22, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order postponing the effective date (the “Postponement”) of the Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization rule (the “Repurchase Rule”), which...more
Evaluating a broad spectrum of challenges raised by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held that the SEC failed to provide a sufficient...more
On November 9, 2023, the United States Chamber of Commerce (“Chamber”) and a coalition of business groups filed suit in the Eastern District Court of Texas against the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), alleging the...more
On October 31, 2023, the Fifth Circuit ruled in Chamber of Commerce v. SEC that the SEC acted arbitrarily and capricious, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, when it adopted the new share repurchase disclosure...more
On October 3, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, where the Court is reviewing the Fifth Circuit’s opinion that struck...more
On September 8, 2023, the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Texas granted plaintiff U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s (the “Chamber”) motion for summary judgment invalidating the Consumer Finance...more
As previously reported, The Chemours Company FC, LLC (“Chemours”) filed a Petition for Review with the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals challenging the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”)’s Health...more
On December 23, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) moved for dismissal, or in the alternative partial summary judgment, of the complaint filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in September 2022 in the...more
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has filed a motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit filed in September 2022 against the CFPB challenging the CFPB’s recent update to the Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts or Practices (UDAAP)...more
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and six trade groups have filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alleging the Bureau is exceeding its...more