The U.S. Chamber of Commerce met the Federal Trade Commission’s late April announcement that it would ban all future employee noncompete agreements with a simple, uncompromising declaration: See you in court.

"The sheer economic and political significance of a nationwide noncompete ban demonstrates that this is a question for Congress to decide, rather than an agency," the lawsuit says.Start the day smarter.

In one move, the Federal Trade Commission voted to ban noncompete agreements, which prevent millions of workers from taking a job at a competitor for a specific period of time.