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Contracts restraining competition by former employees and contractors have always faced enforcement headwinds, differing state-by-state in their strength and direction. California is most hostile; there, a statute purports to...more
This past April, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule (Rule) that amounted to a near total nationwide ban on employers’ use of non-compete agreements. Since its announcement, employers have actively attempted to...more
After a series of preliminary, narrowly decided, and conflicting court decisions concerning requests for preliminary injunctions (see August 20, 2024 Alert), a federal district court in Texas has now entirely set aside the...more
On August 20, 2024, a Texas federal court blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Noncompete Rule scheduled to go into effect on September 4, 2024. Unlike a preliminary injunction entered earlier this year, which only...more
2023 was an active year in the world of unfair competition and trade secrets law, with employers’ use of restrictive covenant agreements coming under assault at the Federal Trade Commission and National Labor Relations Board,...more
As momentum for regulation of non-competes grows at the federal level, states continue to pass restrictive non-compete legislation on their own. As previously reported, on January 5, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission...more
Non-competition agreements are currently in a volatile state, and the future of their enforceability has been called into question by the current administration, and several state legislatures enacting limitations (and in...more
Coming on the heels of the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed rule banning employee non-competes and one week before the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel published a memo taking the position that...more