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Aug 21, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jesse Coleman |Dawn Mertineit |Robert Milligan
This just in: Judge Ada Brown ruled yesterday on the parties’ dueling summary judgment motions – 10 days before her self-imposed deadline to do so – in Ryan LLC v. FTC. Judge Brown granted the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment while denying the FTC’s motion, determining that the FTC’s rule banning non-competes is an unlawful agency action and must be set aside.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jesse Coleman |Katherine Perrelli
The Court ruled on Wednesday, July 3, what most of the legal community already believed: that the FTC lacked the substantive rulemaking authority to issue a nationwide ban on non-competes between employers and workers. Nevertheless, the ruling itself is not likely one that anyone expected.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Jesse Coleman |Katherine Perrelli
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Jesse Coleman |Kevin Mahoney |Kathleen McConnell
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May 27, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Robert Milligan |Jesse Coleman
While the two federal actions in Texas challenging the FTC's
non-compete ban have garnered much of the attention to date, a challenge of the FTC's rule brought by a
small tree trimming business in Pennsylvania is now in the spot
light as the federal court there has indicated that it will issue a
ruling by July 23rd.
Earlier this month, the Plaintiff ATS filed its Motion to Stay
the Effective Date of the Non-Compete Rule in the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania.
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May 23, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jesse Coleman |Robert Milligan
While the two federal actions in Texas challenging the FTC’s non-compete ban have garnered much of the attention to date, a challenge of the FTC’s rule brought by a small tree trimming business in Pennsylvania is now in the spot light as the federal court there has indicated that it will issue a ruling by July 23rd. Earlier this month, the Plaintiff ATS filed its Motion to Stay the Effective Date of the Non-Compete Rule in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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May 15, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Jesse Coleman |Robert Milligan |Michael Wexler
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May 10, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jesse Coleman |Robert Milligan |Michael Wexler
The district court in the Northern District of Texas recently set the briefing schedule on Plaintiff Ryan’s Motion to Stay the FTC Non-Compete Ban and Preliminary Injunction: The Court ORDERS Defendant FTC to file any opposition to Plaintiff Ryan’s Motion for Stay of Effective Date and Preliminary Injunction, by May 22, 2024. The Court further ORDERS Plaintiff Ryan to file any reply in support of its Motion by June 5, 2024.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Jesse Coleman |Robert Milligan |Michael T. Wexler |Katherine Perrelli
On April 23, 2024, the FTC announced its Final Non-Compete Clause Rule (“Final Rule”), which bans post-employment non-compete clauses between employers and their workers. The Final Rule becomes effective 120 days after being published in the Federal Register (Effective Date).[1] As of the date of this paper, the Final Rule has not been published in the Federal Register.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jesse Coleman |Kevin Mahoney |Dawn Mertineit
This afternoon, the FTC voted to adopt a proposed final rule banning most non-competes with workers in the United States. The final rule provides that it is an unfair method of competition—and therefore a violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act—for employers to enter into non-competes with workers. The Commission found that non-competes tend to negatively affect competitive conditions in labor markets by inhibiting efficient matching between workers and employers.
