The FTC’s ban against noncompete agreements is under threat

A federal judge has partially blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s impending ban on noncompete agreements from going into effect. The ban had been set to go into force on September 4th, but on Wednesday, Judge Ada Brown issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought against the FTC.

Tax firm Ryan LLC filed

against the FTC the same day the ban was announced in April, arguing that the ban is “an unauthorized,…