Lawyers: Competing Cases Over FTC’s Noncompete Rule Likely To Reach SCOTUS

Health care lawyers predict two cases with opposite rulings on the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to issue its noncompete rule will eventually be brought before the Supreme Court, coming as all eyes are on federal agencies’ ability to interpret vague laws now that the Chevron doctrine has been shot down. A Pennsylvania district court denied an attempt by a plaintiff to ban FTC’s noncompete rule Tuesday (July 23), after a Texas district court earlier this month issued a preliminary...