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Weeks before it was set to take effect, the non-compete agreements ban was recently blocked by a federal court in Texas. FTC’s non-compete ban has been met with significant contention ever since it was initially announced, the resistance primarily led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The non-compete agreement court ruling was brought by Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and she stated that the “role of an administrative agency is to do as told by Congress, not to do what the agency think[s] it should do.” According to the ruling, the