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Today is Wednesday August 21st and this is your daily news rundown.

Let's get right into today's stories and start

with a story that came out yesterday, but after yesterday's episode was released

and that is a federal judge in Texas has barred the FTC's new ban on non-compete agreements from taking effect.

Notably, this judge is not the only judge that's weighed in on this new rule at this point. So let's back up just a little bit. As we know, the Biden administration

issued a final rule in May, which was set to take effect next month that bans non-compete agreements in the workplace.

The FTC commissioners voted to pass the rule because they said that the non-compete agreements

are an unfair restraint on competition,

and they violate antitrust law and suppress workers' wages,

as well as workers' mobility.

Following the issuance of that rule,

multiple lawsuits were brought across the country, one in Florida,

one in Texas, and one in Pennsylvania.

In July, a judge in Pennsylvania upheld the FTC's rule, finding that the FTC reasonably concluded that

non-competes are rarely justified.

Then last week, a judge in Florida ruled that the FTC's ban was likely invalid and prohibited

a non-compete from applying to a real estate developer.

But most recently, yesterday, a judge in Texas barred the FTC's ban from taking effect nationwide.

The other two cases were different in that they were standalone cases.

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