The Federal Trade Commission pushed a US appeals court to overturn a ruling that prevented a near-total ban on worker noncompetes from going into effect, in a final plea for the regulation before an overhaul in agency leadership.
A Texas federal court was wrong in holding that the commission overstepped its legal authority in issuing a rule banning noncompete agreements, the FTC said in a Thursday brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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