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Mar 14, 2025

FTC reverses its request for a delay in an Amazon trial, says it has resources to litigate the case

A lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission has walked back his comments about a lack of resources and staff turnover interfering with the agency’s preparations for a trial involving Amazon’s Prime program. FTC lawyer Jonathan Cohen asked a federal judge during a hearing on Wednesday to delay the September trial and relax deadlines in the […]

Andrew G.I. Kilberg, a Washington, D.C.-based partner with law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, worked on Ryan LLC v. FTC, the court case in which U.S. District Judge Ada Brown ruled against an FTC ban on noncompete agreements that was scheduled to take effect Sept. 4. Photo by Shannon Ayres
Aug 13, 2024

All eyes on noncompetes

EDITOR’S NOTE: On Aug. 20, a federal judge in Texas ruled against the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements, which was scheduled to go into effect Sept. 4. In striking down the FTC’s pending rule, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown called it “arbitrary and capricious” and an “unlawful agency action.” An FTC spokesperson said […]

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