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In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation

  1. October 25, 2013

    Apple, Google Engineers Win Cert. In Employee Poaching Suit

    A California federal judge on Thursday certified a class action accusing Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other major tech companies of agreeing not to poach one another's employees, ruling that the engineers' antitrust claims and damages could be proved proved on a classwide basis.

  2. September 23, 2013

    Intuit, Others To Pay $20M To Settle Anti-Poaching Pact Suit

    A putative class of software engineers told a California federal court on Saturday that they had reached settlements totaling $20 million with Intuit Inc. and two other employers, in their suit accusing major technology companies of conspiring to fix pay by pledging not to lure away one another's top technical talent.

  3. July 15, 2013

    Apple, Google Hiring Pacts Fixed Pay, Engineers Insist

    Former software engineers for Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other big-name technology companies told a California federal court on Friday they can prove, on a classwide basis, that they were harmed by an alleged conspiracy among the companies to fix employee pay.

  4. June 25, 2013

    Apple, Google Fight Renewed Class Bid In Poaching Row

    Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other technology heavyweights told a California federal court Friday that a group of former software engineers had not shown that their allegations of a conspiracy to fix employee pay involved common issues well-suited for a class action.

  5. May 13, 2013

    Tech Workers Renew Class Bid In Anti-Poaching Case

    Former software engineers at Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other technology giants moved to pare down their bid for class certification Friday after a recent ruling that they lacked evidence showing an alleged plot to fix employee pay affected all salaried workers.

  6. April 08, 2013

    Facebook's Sandberg Looks To Nix Poaching Suit Deposition

    Attorneys for Facebook Inc. executive Sheryl Sandberg will try to quash a subpoena requiring her deposition in a putative antitrust class action alleging that Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other technology heavyweights agreed not to poach employees, according to a filing Friday in California federal court.

  7. April 05, 2013

    Apple, Google Beat Class Cert. In Anti-Poaching Suit, For Now

    A California federal judge ruled Friday that a group of former software engineers at Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other technology giants hadn't done enough to show their suit claiming the companies conspired to fix employee pay and should proceed on a classwide basis.

  8. April 02, 2013

    Facebook Exec To Be Grilled Over Silicon Valley Hiring Pacts

    A California federal judge on Monday said former Google Inc. executive and Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg may be questioned in an antitrust class action accusing Google, Apple Inc. and others of conspiring to fix employees' pay through secret hiring pacts.

  9. March 01, 2013

    Google Can Withhold Some Emails In Anti-Poaching Pact Suit

    A federal judge in California on Thursday shot down an attempt by five software engineers to force Google Inc. to disclose certain emails exchanged with Intuit Inc. Chairman Bill Campbell — messages the engineers suspect might be relevant to their suit alleging a conspiracy among the nation's biggest technology companies not to poach each other's top scientific talent.

  10. February 26, 2013

    Google Must Hand Over Emails In Poaching Suit, Judge Hears

    A proposed class of software engineers accusing Apple Inc., Google Inc., and other technology giants of illegally conspiring not to poach each other's employees told a California federal judge Tuesday that Google should cough up emails to Intuit chairman Bill Campbell, allegedly a primary player in the scheme.

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