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Do you remember that scene from Rounders, right after Mike McDermott spots Teddy KGB’s poker “tell,” when Teddy laments, “Hanging around…hanging around… kid’s got alligator blood. Can’t get rid of him.“?
It feels that way, with the Federal Trade Commission’s non-compete Rule imposing a comprehensive ban on new non-competes with all workers.
Yesterday, a Pennsylvania federal judge denied an employer’s request to enjoin the Rule, concluding that the plaintiff “failed to establish a reasonable chance, or probability, of winning.”
The plaintiff, a tree care company that required its employees to sign non-compete agreements prohibiting them from working for direct competitors