re: How does the FTC have the authority to do this - Non Compete ?

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Do these companies engage in interstate commerce?

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Ah, yes. The "everything imaginable is interstate commerce so therefore administrative agencies can do whatever they want" argument.

If the federal government wants to regulate state contract law, Congress needs to do it, or authorize the FTC to do it. Congress has not done so.

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Also, why would states want to infringe on individual freedom?

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The "why" doesn't matter. Contract law and policy is the States' prerogative.