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Troutman Pepper

States' Action Still Viable Despite Ban of FTC Noncompete Rule

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The Northern District of Texas’s nationwide ban on the Federal Trade Commission’s noncompete rule isn’t a complete bar to government enforcement. The rule sought to curb unfair methods of competition and would have voided...more

Cozen O'Connor

Employment Law Now VIII-150 - The FTC Noncompete Rule is Dead: What Now?

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In this special 150th podcast episode, Michael Schmidt is joined by his Cozen O'Connor colleagues David Barron and Jim Gale to discuss what is left of the FTC noncompete rule, if anything, and what employers should be doing...more

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The FTC’s effort for a non-compete ban has been judicially struck down, however, its fate still hangs in the balance

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The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) efforts to ban non-compete agreements was significantly curtailed when a federal judge in Texas, on August 20, 2024, issued a nationwide injunction, finding the FTC’s ban on non-compete...more

Chartwell Law

The End of Non-Compete Agreements: How the FTC's New Rule Could Reshape Employment Contracts

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The structure of employment contracts is undergoing a seismic shift with the recent move by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ban non-compete clauses. This landmark decision has the potential to reshape how businesses...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

Implications of Mahram v. The Kroger Co.: A Closer Look at Arbitration Agreements

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In a recent legal dispute, Mahram v. The Kroger Co., a California Court of Appeal delivered a decision that may have implications for employment arbitration agreements. Although the case at hand involved a consumer...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

FTC Noncompete Rule Set Aside by Federal Court

On August 20, 2024, a federal court in the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction blocking a final rule issued earlier this year by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”). This final rule would have put an...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

It appears the FTC’s Rule Prohibiting Noncompetes is Dead (For Now)

The ability of employers to legally enforce noncompetition restrictions received a big win last week when a federal court in Texas set aside the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Final Rule seeking to ban noncompete clauses...more

Troutman Pepper

FTC Noncompete Rule Risks a Wave of State AG Actions

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On April 23, the FTC promulgated its final rule banning noncompetes nationwide. Originally published in Law360 - May 23, 2024....more

McGuireWoods LLP

Texas Federal District Court Sets Aside FTC’s Non-Compete Rule Nationwide

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A Texas federal district court held on Aug. 20, 2024, that the Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning most employer-employee non-compete agreements is unlawful. This decision — unlike earlier preliminary decisions — orders...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Federal Court Blocks FTC Non-Compete Ban: What Companies Should Know

Additional Important Updates on the FTC’s Non-Compete Ban August.21.2024 The Rule is Blocked Nationwide: On August 20, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan, LLC v. FTC, granted...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

A Ban No More: District Court Strikes Down FTC’s Noncompete Ban

The FTC’s noncompete ban (16 C.F.R. § 910-1.6) is no more, at least for the time being. On Aug. 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Hon. Ada Brown, U.S.D.J.), in Ryan, LLC v. Federal...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Life After the FTC Non-Compete Ban: What Companies Should Know (Updated)

The Rule is Blocked Nationwide: On August 20, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan, LLC v. FTC, granted Plaintiff-Intervenors’ motion for summary judgment, holding that the FTC’s...more

Maynard Nexsen

FTC Noncompete Ban Struck Down

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Judge Ada Brown of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, ruling that the FTC Rule establishing a noncompete ban (“the Rule”) is arbitrary and capricious, and...more

Cooley LLP

Texas Court Blocks FTC’s Noncompete Ban

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On August 20, 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission issued an order blocking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule banning all post-employment noncompete...more

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

FTC Rule Prohibiting Non-Compete Agreements Set Aside by Texas Court

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On August 20, 2024, a judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas entered an order prohibiting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from implementing a new rule that would have prohibited...more

Miller Nash LLP

So Much for Goodbye: FTC Ban on Noncompetes Just Overturned

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On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a much-anticipated new rule that would have prohibited ALL new noncompetes with employees nationwide, and enforcement of almost all existing noncompetes beginning...more

Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP

Texas Court Strikes Down FTC Noncompete Ban

On August 20, 2024, United States Court District Judge Ada Brown ruled that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) lacked the authority to promulgate and enforce its Non-Compete Clause Rule (the “FTC Noncompete Ban”). The...more

Robinson Bradshaw

Court Sets Aside FTC Final Rule on Non-Competes

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On Aug. 20, a federal district court in Texas entered a final judgment setting aside the Federal Trade Commission’s Final Rule, which would have banned most existing and all new non-compete agreements for workers on Sept. 4....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Court Blocks FTC’s Nationwide Ban on Non-Compete Agreements

On August 20, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan, LLC et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, granted the plaintiffs’ motions for summary judgment and found the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on...more

Locke Lord LLP

FTC’s Rule Banning Non-Competes Set Aside: How Did We Get Here and What’s Next?

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On August 20, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas issued her much-anticipated final decision in Ryan LLC and Chamber of Commerce et al v. Federal Trade Commission, ‎and set aside the FTC’s...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

District Court Strikes Down FTC’s Noncompete Ban

The FTC’s noncompete ban (16 C.F.R. § 910-1.6) is no more, at least for the time being. On Aug. 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Hon. Ada Brown, U.S.D.J.), in Ryan, LLC v. Federal...more

Morgan Lewis

Texas Federal Court ‘Sets Aside’ FTC’s Noncompete Clause Rule

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Judge Ada Brown of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas entered a final judgment in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on August 20, 2024, holding unlawful and setting aside the FTC Noncompete...more

Vedder Price

FTC Rule Banning Non-Competes Held to Be Unlawful Agency Action and Set Aside

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Judge Ada E. Brown of the Northern District of Texas this afternoon granted summary judgment in favor of Ryan, LLC and the plaintiff-intervenors in the case of Ryan, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission challenging the FTC’s ban...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Texas Court Sets Aside FTC Noncompete Rule, With Nationwide Effect

On August 20, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a memorandum opinion and order holding that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule banning post-employment noncompetes (Noncompete Rule)...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Federal Texas Court Sets Aside with “Nationwide Effect” the FTC Rule Banning Non-Competes

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Once again surprising the country by acting ten days before her own self-appointed deadline, a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a ruling on August 20 in the Ryan v....more

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