The president-elect is known to be a user of NDAs that function as noncompetes, and the accounting firm behind the successful ...

Attorneys ultimately expect the Supreme Court to review the case as several other similar lawsuits wind their way through the ...

FTC's final rule prohibiting employers from using noncompete agreement could be affected by the election results.

Last April, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized a near-total ban on non-compete agreements that could have a significant impact on the financial services industry, but that guidance has now ...

A Florida federal judge who relied on the “major questions” doctrine in siding with a company challenging the Federal Trade ...

First, recent developments in the legal challenges to the FTC’s Non-Compete Clause Rule (the Rule) suggest that the Rule is unlikely to go into effect anytime soon. Second, the National Labor ...

Absent a Fifth Circuit order to the contrary, the FTC's Non-Compete Rule remains blocked nationwide. This is not the only appeal the FTC has pending in a circuit court. In Properties of the ...

In August, US District Judge Ada Brown ruled that the FTC lacked the authority for such a sweeping ban. The new rule, first announced in April, aimed to void most non-compete agreements ...

House Oversight Committee Republicans argued that the government’s consumer protection chief violated the Federal Trade ...

Recent court decisions and agency actions have threatened companies' ability to protect themselves through noncompetition, ...

“As with many other business practices, one size does not fit all, and the FTC’s rule imposed a sweeping ban on non-compete agreements, instead of taking a more measured approach to achieve ...