Federal Trade Commission

FTC Drops Appeal of Court’s Rejection of Nationwide Ban on Noncompete Agreements – To Pursue Individual Cases Where Noncompetes are an Unfair Trade Practice

By David Oxenford|2025-09-10T09:19:50-05:00September 10th, 2025|Legal News|

The Federal Trade Commission last week announced that it was dropping its appeal of a court decision which put on hold an FTC order adopted during the Biden administration which banned noncompete agreements in all industries across the country (see our note here). This ban was a concern to many in the broadcast industry as... Continue Reading…

FTC Drops Appeal of Court’s Rejection of Nationwide Ban on Noncompete Agreements – To Pursue Individual Cases Where Noncompetes are an Unfair Trade Practice

By David Oxenford|2025-09-10T09:19:50-05:00September 10th, 2025|Legal News|

The Federal Trade Commission last week announced that it was dropping its appeal of a court decision which put on hold an FTC order adopted during the Biden administration which banned noncompete agreements in all industries across the country (see our note here). This ban was a concern to many in the broadcast industry as... Continue Reading…

FTC Votes to Ban Noncompete Agreements

By Anne Goodwin Crump|2024-04-23T18:08:36-05:00April 23rd, 2024|Legal News|

In late-breaking news, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has adopted a final rule banning new noncompete agreements for all workers and effectively nullifying existing agreements and requiring companies to notify most current and past employees that the company will no longer enforce such agreements. In a change from the prior FTC proposal, however, the agreements...… Continue Reading

More Challenges for E-Cigs Ads – Congress and FTC Looking at Marketing Practices While States Impose Bans

By David Oxenford|2019-10-04T07:38:04-05:00October 4th, 2019|Legal News|

We recently wrote about some of the challenges for e-cig advertising based on Federal and state actions to restrict the sale of flavored vaping products. Even though advertising for e-cigarettes is not currently illegal at the Federal level (see our articles here and here that discuss the disclaimer that must accompany those ads and the... Continue Reading…

Bye Bye Net Neutrality Starting June 11

By FHH Law|2018-05-11T09:30:45-05:00May 11th, 2018|Legal News|

Mark your calendars because the time has come: as of June 11 the FCC announced yesterday that its Open Internet rules (better known as “net neutrality”) will cease and new FCC rules governing the Internet will take effect. This was the latest in a series of procedural milestones in the net neutrality debate. In a...… Continue Reading

The FCC’s Open Internet Order – Which Freedom?

By Sekoia Rogers and FHH Law|2017-12-15T14:40:32-06:00December 15th, 2017|Legal News|

The fight over the Open Internet (better known as net neutrality) continued Thursday with the Federal Communications Commission voting to reverse the 2015 Title II Order, which reclassified broadband Internet access as a “telecommunications service.” This decision means that the Internet will return to its pre-2015 Title I “information service” classification (For a history of how...… Continue Reading

A First Look Inside the Net Neutrality Order

By Paul J. Feldman|2015-04-02T21:00:46-05:00April 2nd, 2015|Legal News|

Our Internet guru digs deep into the Open Internet decision and comes up with … questions. I recently posted an item summarizing the broad strokes of the FCC’s new “Open Internet” (a/k/a net neutrality) rules and polici...