Back in April 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule that would have banned non-compete agreements nationwide as of September 4, 2024. (You can read our alert on the FTC’s final rule here.) However, on August 20, 2024, in the case Ryan LLC v. FTC, a federal district court in Texas issued a permanent injunction blocking the FTC’s final rule from going into effect on September 4. This followed the same court’s preliminary ruling in July that offered limited, temporary relief from the rule for plaintiffs only. In its August 20 ruling, the federal court made
