FTC staff has reviewed public materials from your client's lawsuit seeking to enforce a noncompete agreement against a former worker and the competitor who hired her. These materials indicate that Mortgage Connect may have broadly deployed unjustifiable noncompete agreements in employment contracts with potential adverse effects on workers and competition.
With apps surging and receding, chasing one craze and moving on from others, and adding new features with each passing year, the FTC has understandably struggled to fix the boundaries of Meta's product market. Even so, it continues to insist that Meta competes with the same old rivals it has for the last decade, that the company holds a monopoly among that small set, and that it maintained that monopoly through anticompetitive acquisitions,
Thus far, six appeals courts across the country have ruled on this issue and their decisions are split evenly with three saying optional rules can be an example of concerted action and three saying they cannot. REX claims that if the Supreme Court were to look at the ruling made by the Ninth Circuit in its appeal in comparison with the rulings made by the other appeals courts, they would see that the Ninth Circuit's decision lacks legal support.
