Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing ...
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 ...
We reported last month that the district court in the northern district of Texas had “set aside” the Federal Trade Commission’s recently ...
At a webinar Wednesday, three Cozen O’Connor attorneys discussed what widely-watched Biden administration rule is likely to ...
Attorneys ultimately expect the Supreme Court to review the case as several other similar lawsuits wind their way through the ...
A Florida federal judge who relied on the “major questions” doctrine in siding with a company challenging the Federal Trade ...
Geoffrey A. Mort, Of Counsel at Kraus & Zuchlewski LLP, New York, provides a detailed overview of the debate surrounding ...
The FTC has appealed a federal court’s A ruling that prohibited the agency from enforcing a rule prohibiting noncompetes ...
The authors contend that the FTC characterizes non-compete agreements to be "unfair methods of competition" and therefore in violation of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. This act bans ...
Courts have already put on hold Biden Administration rules banning noncompete agreements and making more workers eligible for ...
About 20% of U.S. workers, or 30 million people, have signed noncompetes, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which passed a rule this year banning the agreements nationwide.
Taking account of the fact that one in five workers are subject to a non-compete clause, this implies that non-compete ...