Eric Tate

1 week ago | rand.org | Antonio Arenas |Asif Rahman |Aaron Nola strong |Eric Tate

Publisher: Elsevier LtdAvailability: Non-RAND Year: 2025 Pages: 14 Document Number: EP-70927 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.

Aug 22, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Eric Gebert |Eric Tate |Andrew Turnbull

On August 20, 2024, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a nationwide injunction against the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC’s”) rule banning non-competes with employees (the “Rule”).  As we previously reported, the court foreshadowed this ruling last month when it issued a limited injunction, barring the Rule from applying only to the plaintiffs in that case.

Aug 16, 2024 | jdsupra.com | David Papas |Eric Tate |Andrew Turnbull

Earlier this year, on April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) barring nearly all non-competition provisions for most workers in the United States. The Final Rule is set to go into effect on September 4, 2024. As previously reported, however, the Final Rule has been challenged in several courts throughout the country. For instance, on July 3, 2024, in Ryan LCC v.

Jul 15, 2024 | nature.com | Paul Bates |Jim Hall |Bruno Merz |Jaroslav Mysiak |Eric Tate |Jens de Bruijn

AbstractFlood adaptation measures such as levees, flood-proofing structures, nature-based solutions and flood insurance are essential to cope with the growing flood risk caused by climate change and urban development into flood-prone areas. However, many communities in flood zones are ill-protected because the implementation of adaptation measures is hindered by a variety of constraints to adaptation, including the cost, limitations on institutional capacity and societal inertia.

May 23, 2024 | law.com | Eric Tate |Michael Schulman

For the past several years, non-compete agreements have been under attack by legislatures, agencies and regulators throughout the country. In 2018, Massachusetts led a renewed charge by state legislatures to reign in the use of non-compete agreements in the workforce, passing a law that significantly limited the ability of employers to bind employees to non-compete restrictions in the state.