A federal judge in Pennsylvania will allow a case challenging the Federal Trade Commission’s near-total ban on worker noncompetes to proceed despite a Texas court vacating the regulation.
“The fact that the rule is currently enjoined does not mean that it is forever gone,” Judge Kelley Brisbon Hodge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said in a Thursday order.
ATS Tree Services LLC, a tree care company that sued the FTC over its noncompete ban, moved for a stay in the Pennsylvania proceedings after judge in Texas set aside the rule on nationwide basis. But ...
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