Jonathan Sterling

Oct 4, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Brendan Gooley |Jonathan Sterling

A federal judge in Texas has enjoined the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements, leaving the FTC’s attempt to quash such agreements waiving in the breeze, at least for the time being. Earlier this spring, the FTC issued a broad rule banning almost all noncompetes in for-profit businesses, subject to limited exceptions, including an exception for senior executives (defined as workers earning more than $151,164 annually who are in policymaking roles).

May 23, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Brendan Gooley |Jonathan Sterling

The SEC has opened a new track in the whistleblower litigation derby. While SEC enforcement actions concerning whistleblower violations are nothing new, they typically involve claims that companies precluded employees from reporting purported violations of securities laws to the SEC. See “Juggling Act: SEC Fines Three Employers for Potentially Discouraging Whistleblowers,” Expect Focus – Life, Annuity, and Retirement Solutions (January 2024).

May 3, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Brendan Gooley |James Sconzo |Jonathan Sterling

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has issued an aggressive scheduling order that “should allow prompt resolution of” one of the initial challenges to the FTC’s noncompete ban “with sufficient time, before the rule’s effective date, for ... appellate review.” Briefing under the court’s schedule will be completed by June 19, 2024.

Jan 5, 2024 | dl.acm.org | Jonathan Sterling

Guillaume Allais, James Chapman, Conor McBride, and James McKinna. 2017. Type-and-scope safe programs and their proofs. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs, CPP 2017, Paris, France, January 16-17, 2017, Yves Bertot and Viktor Vafeiadis (Eds.). ACM, 195–207. https://doi.org/10.1145/3018610.3018613 Google ScholarDigital LibraryRobert Atkey. 2012. Relational Parametricity for Higher Kinds.

Dec 13, 2023 | hrdailyadvisor.blr.com | Jonathan Sterling |Brendan Gooley |Carlton Fields |Kimberly A. Benjamin

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has made a series of pro-employee moves over the past few months that have significant adverse implications for employers. Rundown of Recent ActionsThe Board’s recent actions include:Invalidating most confidentiality and nondisparagement provisions in employment agreements;Asserting the position that most noncompete agreements are illegal; andImposing stricter scrutiny on workplace rules in general.