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Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a... more +
Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a certain industry or locale. The purpose of these agreements is to protect employers or business purchasers from competition stemming from former employees or former owners of a business. less -
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ABA Spring Meeting Sessions: Key Highlights From US Antitrust Enforcers’ Statements (April 10-12, 2024)

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Below is a summary of some of the most important points made by antitrust enforcers who participated in panels at the ABA Antitrust Section’s annual Spring Meeting....more

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Surescripts Settlement Shores Up Competition in E-Prescription Market

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The FTC settled with Surescripts, LLC to resolve allegations that the health information technology company violated the FTC Act by engaging in anticompetitive, monopolistic conduct....more

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FTC Enforcement Action Limits Noncompetition Agreements in “Sale of Business” Transactions

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On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order, in which he described the nation’s antitrust laws as the “first line of defense against the monopolization of the American economy” and encouraged the Federal Trade...more

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Are the Federal Antitrust Laws Now a Weapon for Employee Rights?

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Perhaps flying under the radar of everyone except antitrust lawyers (and the employers who have been targeted), the Department of Justice (DOJ) has made a concerted push recently to use federal anti-trust laws as a tool to...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Is it Unfair to Restrict Unfair Competition? The FTC May Soon Make Their Stance Known

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If you utilize non-competition agreements in your business to protect your trade secrets, customer goodwill, and business relationships, then today’s update is an important one for you. Earlier this month, the Federal...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Three Takeaways from “Navigating the New Antitrust Enforcers”

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Corporate acquirers accustomed to government inertia in antitrust reform are navigating a sea change in Washington, according to Craig Seebald, a Washington, D.C.-based Partner and leader in the global Antitrust Group at...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: July 2021 #2

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The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more

Hogan Lovells

Client Alert: Virginia Court Invalidates Government Contractor’s Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement with Independent...

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In January 2020, Judge John Tran of the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia held unenforceable non-competition and non-solicitation provisions in a government contractor’s consulting agreements entered into with...more

Allen Matkins

Mirabile Dictu! Court Finds No Per Se Application Of Non-Compete Ban

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California Business & Professions Code Section 16600 declares void "every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind". The California Supreme Court famously...more

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FTC Sues e-Prescriptions Company in Rare Monopolization Case

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The Situation: The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") recently filed a rare monopolization case, alleging that a health information technology company illegally monopolized two e-prescribing markets. The Impact: The FTC...more

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Pharma Distributors Trade Association Sued for Conspiracy to Exclude Competition for its Track and Trace Software

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On October 23, 2017, a company that developed software to track and trace pharmaceuticals filed a complaint against a pharmaceutical distributors trade association that currently dominates the market for such software,...more

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