Anti-poaching settlement approved at $425 million
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh has blessed a $415 million settlement in the antitrust class action suit against Apple Inc., Google Inc. and others. The defendants were accused of illegally agreeing not to poach each other’s software engineers. A prior settlement deal at $325 million was rejected by the Court as insufficient.
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