The Federal Trade Commission dropped its attempt to ban almost all employer-worker non-compete agreements by rule. It will instead focus on bringing case-by-case enforcement actions.

On September 5, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a statement “acced[ing] to the …

On August 20, 2024, Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction setting aside the Federal Trade Commission’s final rule banning non-compete agreements in Ryan LLC v. FTC.  Last …

In a decision issued on July 23, 2024 (the ATS Decision), U.S. District Judge Kelley Brisbon Hodge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied Plaintiff ATS Tree Services LLC’s motion for a stay of effective date and preliminary injunction against …

On July 3, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction order that enjoins the Federal Trade Commission from enforcing the FTC’s so-called “Non-Compete Rule,” which would have banned most non-competes.^[1]…

• California enacted two non-compete laws, Senate Bill 699 (SB 699) and Assembly Bill 1076 (AB 1076), both of which went into effect on January 1, 2024. These laws, discussed in more detail below, add new requirements and penalties to California’s