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September 03, 2015
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh approved a $415 million class action settlement with Apple Inc., Google Inc. and others Wednesday resolving claims they illegally agreed not to poach each other's engineers, but gave the plaintiffs just half of the $81 million in attorneys' fees they had requested.
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June 16, 2015
Plaintiffs in the antitrust class action accusing Apple Inc., Google Inc. and others of illegally agreeing not to poach each other's engineers urged a California federal judge Monday to grant final approval of the $415 million settlement, saying only a tiny fraction of the 64,000 class members objected or opted out.
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May 08, 2015
Plaintiffs' attorneys in the antitrust class action accusing Apple Inc., Google Inc. and others of illegally agreeing not to poach each other's engineers urged a California federal judge on Thursday to approve $87 million in attorneys' fees and expenses to be paid out of the $415 million settlement.
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March 30, 2015
A Google Inc. software engineer on Monday withdrew his objections to a $415 million settlement in the antitrust class action accusing Apple Inc., Google Inc. and others of illegally agreeing to not poach engineers, asking a California federal judge to disregard concerns he raised Friday.
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March 04, 2015
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh on Tuesday formally signed off on a $415 million settlement in the antitrust class action accusing Apple Inc., Google Inc. and others of illegally agreeing not to poach each others' engineers, calling the revised settlement proposal a "substantial" payout.
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March 02, 2015
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh on Monday signaled she would preliminarily approve a $415 million settlement to end the high-profile antitrust class action accusing Apple Inc., Google Inc. and others of illegally agreeing not to poach each other's software engineers, months after rejecting a $325 million deal as too small.
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January 15, 2015
Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. have reached a sweetened, $415 million deal in the antitrust class action alleging they illegally agreed not to poach each other's engineers, $90.5 million more than a deal a California federal judge rejected last year, according to a filing Thursday.
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January 13, 2015
Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. have reached a new deal in the antitrust class action alleging the companies illegally agreed not to poach each other's engineers, Google on Tuesday told the Ninth Circuit, which had been asked to revive a rejected settlement.
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October 28, 2014
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.
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October 23, 2014
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh agreed Wednesday to take on a proposed class action accusing Oracle Corp. of conspiring to suppress employee pay by entering an anti-poaching agreement with Google Inc., finding the new suit was related to an ongoing case about similar recruitment agreements.