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title: Challenging the FTC’s Proposed Noncompete Rule
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# Challenging the FTC’s Proposed Noncompete Rule

  January 17, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

The FTC’s proposal to ban noncompete clauses is vulnerable to challenge. Kelley Drye’s Antitrust and Competition attorneys (who are also former FTC officials) share their thoughts on the most significant concerns. Read more on the agency’s authority to propose this ban, how to engage in the rulemaking, and what challenges we’re likely to see in the courts. - [https://​www​.adlawac​cess​.com/​2​0​2​3​/​0​1​/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​s​/​t​h​e​-​f​t​c​s​-​p​r​o​p​o​s​a​l​-​t​o​-​b​a​n​-​n​o​n​c​o​m​p​e​t​e​s​-​i​s​-​o​n​-​s​h​a​k​y​-​l​e​g​a​l​-​g​r​ound/](https://www.adlawaccess.com/2023/01/articles/the-ftcs-proposal-to-ban-noncompetes-is-on-shaky-legal-ground/)

 

 

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