High Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation

High-Tech Employee Anti-Trust Litigation involves a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged "no cold call” agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees. The defendants are Adobe Systems, Apple Computer Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucas Film and EBay, all high-technology companies with a principal place of business in the San Francisco-Silicon Valley area of California. The civil class action which was filed by five plaintiffs, one of whom has died, accused the tech companies of collusion to not recruit one another's employees between 2005 and 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation

Sept'2014: A new class action lawsuit on behalf of VFX workers just been filed in the Northern California District Court against the biggest names in the industry, including Walt Disney Animation, DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures, as well as the two original “Techtopus” conspirators — Lucas Film and Pixar. In all, the complaint names VFX nine defendants, including San Rafael’s Imagemovers Digital.

Oct'2014: An antitrust lawsuit was filed last week against Oracle and Google.

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