{"id":220,"date":"2025-09-10T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/?p=220"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:13:14","slug":"ftc-abandons-appeals-of-decisions-striking-down-its-noncompete-rule-but-restrictive-covenants-remain-an-enforcement-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2025\/09\/10\/ftc-abandons-appeals-of-decisions-striking-down-its-noncompete-rule-but-restrictive-covenants-remain-an-enforcement-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Abandons Appeals of Decisions Striking Down Its Noncompete Rule, but Restrictive Covenants Remain an Enforcement Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has formally abandoned its appeals in\u00a0<em>Ryan, LLC v. FTC<\/em>\u00a0(5th Cir.) and\u00a0<em>Properties of the Villages v. FTC<\/em>\u00a0(11th Cir.), effectively conceding the vacatur of its proposed nationwide ban on noncompete agreements. While this decision confirms that the FTC\u2019s sweeping noncompete rule will not take effect, employers should not interpret the move as a retreat from scrutiny of post-employment restrictive covenants. On the contrary, recent enforcement actions and policy initiatives suggest that the FTC will continue to pursue noncompetes and similar labor market restrictive covenants through alternative strategies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/ftc_abandons_appeals_decisions_striking_down_noncompete_rule_restrictive_covenants_remain_0925.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/ftc_abandons_appeals_decisions_striking_down_noncompete_rule_restrictive_covenants_remain_0925.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris website. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has formally abandoned its appeals in\u00a0Ryan, LLC v. FTC\u00a0(5th Cir.) and\u00a0Properties of the Villages v. FTC\u00a0(11th Cir.), effectively conceding the vacatur of its proposed nationwide ban on noncompete agreements. While this decision confirms that the FTC\u2019s sweeping noncompete rule will not take effect, employers should not interpret the move as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2025\/09\/10\/ftc-abandons-appeals-of-decisions-striking-down-its-noncompete-rule-but-restrictive-covenants-remain-an-enforcement-priority\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FTC Abandons Appeals of Decisions Striking Down Its Noncompete Rule, but Restrictive Covenants Remain an Enforcement Priority&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,94,16,93,73,17,95,92],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antitrust","tag-bryan-shapiro","tag-ftc","tag-lawrence-pockers","tag-noncompete","tag-sean-mcconnell","tag-shannon-sutherland","tag-trade-secrets"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}