We previously reported that Ryan LLC (“Plaintiff”) and the United States Chamber of Commerce (“Plaintiff-Intervenor”), in anticipation of the Northern District of Texas’s merits disposition, would likely seek nationwide application of the preliminary injunction staying the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Noncompete Rule, or alternatively, that the preliminary injunction be expanded to apply to all of Plaintiff-Intervenor’s members under the associational standing doctrine.
On July 19, 2024, Plaintiff and Plaintiff-Intervenor filed motions seeking exactly that type of relief.
[Update: On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to issue its final noncompete rule, with only a few changes from the proposed rule. Analysis of the final rule, the changes, and what may come next are discussed in this blog post.]
On April 16, 2024, the FTC announced that it will hold a special Open Commission Meeting on April 23, 2024 to vote on its proposed rule to ban the use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts, which has been pending since January 2023.
As we reported then, the proposed rule, as drafted, would prohibit employers throughout the United States ...
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