Judge Koh Takes Up Another Animation Anti-Poaching Case

By Vin Gurrieri (October 28, 2014, 4:40 PM EDT) -- U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh on Tuesday agreed to hear a California class action accusing Dreamworks Animation SKG and other animation companies of conspiring to fix workers' pay, at least the third similar case she has related to the massive Apple Inc. antitrust action she's overseeing.

In a one-page order, Judge Koh determined that a class action filed against Dreamworks, Pixar Inc., Sony Pictures Animation Inc., Image Movers LLC and others by David Wentworth, a former production engineer at ImageMovers Digital, related to a consolidated suit accusing Apple, Google Inc. and other tech companies of scheming to restrain worker pay through...

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