Small Business Majority tagged out

Well, that was quick.

Two days ago, I posted about the Small Business Majority’s motion to intervene in the 5th Circuit appeal by the FTC. Essentially, the Small Business Majority sought to step in to try to keep the FTC’s noncompete rule alive in light of the FTC’s anticipated dismissal of its appeal. As noted, the Small Business Majority sought to intervene in both the 5th and 11th circuit appeals.

While the 11th Circuit has not yet ruled, the 5th Circuit has.

No surprise, the 5th Circuit denied the motion.

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Firm resources: 

We know how hard it is to keep up with the ever-changing laws and requirements around the country for how you can protect company’s trade secrets, customer goodwill, and the integrity of your workforce. To help, we have created the following resources (available for free):

	50-State Noncompete Law Chart, the first of its kind and regularly updated (downloadable PDF) (to be updated for the new exemptions in Illinois and Pennsylvania)50-State and Federal Trade Secret Law Chart, providing a comparison of the trade secrets laws nationally to the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (downloadable PDF)
	Chart of Noncompete “Low-Wage” Thresholds and Criteria (downloadable)
	Notice requirements summary chart, providing details for each of the 8 states (plus D.C.) that has notice requirements related to noncompetes (downloadable PDF)
	“Changing Trade Secrets | Noncompete Laws” (dedicated blog page) now provides a current detailed summary of the changing landscape of trade secret laws and noncompete laws around the country, state by state and at the federal level
	Trade secret and other legitimate business interest protection plan strategy and checklist

We hope you find all of these resources useful. More will be coming.

And please note, we are grateful for all of the input we’ve received over the years. We welcome any suggestions for improvements that you may be willing to share.

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Shout out to MLex (paywalled) for finding this before I did.