In a “it’s déjà vu all over again” moment, on Nov. 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Texas and Plano Chamber of Commerce v. United States Department of Labor set aside and vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2024 Final Rule increasing the salary level for employees to remain exempt from minimum wage and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) executive, administrative and professional (EAP) exemptions, and automatically updating the salary level every three years. This is, of course, the same fate that met the 2016 Final Rule that both increased the salary level for EAP employees and automatically updated that level, which was enjoined in the waning days of the Obama administration. While the U.S. Department of Justice, which represents the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), filed an appeal of this decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, it is anticipated that the incoming administration likely will withdraw this appeal.