Mikela T. Sutrina

Aug 21, 2024 | lexology.com | John Carroll |Jonathan Clark |Stephen Fox |Ann M. O'Brien |Lindsay Stone |Mikela T. Sutrina | +1 more

On July 3, 2024, Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas entered a limited, preliminary injunction barring the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) from enforcing its controversial Final Rule (“Rule”) which purports to ban almost all non-compete agreements. Importantly, Judge Brown’s preliminary order only enjoined enforcement of the Final Rule against the named plaintiffs who opposed it.

Apr 25, 2024 | lexblog.com | John Carroll |Leo Caseria |Jonathan Clark |Thomas Dillickrath |John Carroll |Jonathan Clark | +6 more

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) voted 3-2 to issue its final rule (“Final Rule”) banning employers from imposing noncompete clauses on their workers, approving the final rule in a special Open Commission Meeting. The FTC issued the Final Rule more than 15 months after publishing a proposed rule. Since that time, the FTC has received tens of thousands of comments, with the FTC claiming that 25,000 of the 26,000 comments received supported a ban on noncompetes.