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Dive Transient:
- A Texas federal decide on Wednesday granted a tax providers agency’s movement for a preliminary injunction of the Federal Commerce Fee’s nationwide ban on noncompete agreements in employment contracts and has stayed its efficient date for the plaintiffs.
- Choose Ada E. Brown of the U.S. District Courtroom for the Northern District of Texas held that FTC violated the Administrative Process Act and exceeded its statutory authority by issuing the ban, which she stated has a “substantial probability” of being discovered arbitrary and capricious.
- Brown stated the injunction is proscribed in scope to the plaintiffs and plaintiff-intervenors named within the go well with; it isn’t a nationwide injunction. She added that the court docket would rule on the deserves of the company’s motion on or earlier than Aug. 30, 2024.
Dive Perception:
FTC voted alongside get together strains to approve the ban in April, and several other lawsuits towards the company adopted. Except for Ryan, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce additionally sued FTC shortly after it introduced the ban, however a decide positioned a maintain on that go well with final month as a result of Ryan was the primary filed.
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