07.30.24
In the second federal district court ruling to date on the Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning nearly all noncompete agreements, a Pennsylvania court upheld the FTC rule as a legitimate exercise of the FTC’s substantive rulemaking authority under the FTC Act.
07.02.24
With the demise of the doctrine of Chevron deference at the U.S. Supreme Court in the Loper Bright Enterprises case, the future of the Federal Trade Commission’s broad rule banning noncompete agreements nationwide is uncertain.
05.09.24
The big regulatory news out of the FTC in April was the issuance of a new Final Rule governing noncompete agreements.
04.24.24
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to approve issuance of a Final Rule banning nearly all noncompete agreements nationwide.
04.05.24
The Final Rules keep rolling in, but with a twist. Each of the two Final Rules released in March were accompanied by Supplemental Notices of Proposed Rulemaking.
02.06.24
We ended last month’s update noting that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had finalized its Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Rule.
01.02.24
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or the Commission) had a busy December.
12.21.23
On December 20, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed its first significant updates to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in a decade.
12.11.23
On November 30, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell (the “AGO”) unveiled a new proposed rule regulating “junk fees” and consumer subscriptions (the “Proposed Rule”).
11.28.23
A number of interesting developments out of the FTC this month.
