Apple, Google Win Ruling Blocking Group Antitrust Lawsuit
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Apple Inc. and six other companies won a court order to block potentially thousands of employees, from engineers to sous chefs, from proceeding in a group lawsuit that their incomes were held down by the companies’ agreements not to recruit one another’s workers.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, ruled today that information-sharing by plaintiffs lawyers and the companies may permit the case to go forward and the employees may refile their claims with the newer information.