Judge Halts Chamber’s Suit Challenging FTC’s Noncompete Ban (1)

A federal judge halted the US Chamber of Commerce’s lawsuit over the Federal Trade Commission’s noncompete ban, allowing the Chamber to join a similar case filed earlier in a separate Texas court.

Business groups led by the nation’s largest business lobby sued the FTC last month in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the day after the antitrust agency finalized a rule outlawing noncompete provisions that prohibit workers from switching jobs within an industry. The ban would increase US earnings by at least $400 billion over the next 10 years, the FTC estimated.

But Ryan LLC, ...