Khan-Led FTC Makes Final Court Plea for Worker Noncompete Ban

Jan. 3, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

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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“The district court compounded its errors by entering a universal vacatur of ...

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