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Labor/Employment

Apr. 8, 2015

Judge throws out antitrust suit against animation studios

U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh of San Jose said animators were too late to file claims of a "no poaching" conspiracy.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A federal judge late Friday tossed a class action that alleged widespread collusion among the entertainment industry's biggest animation studios to suppress animators' wages.


U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh dismissed with leave to amend a trio of consolidated lawsuits filed last fall, saying they exceed the four-year statute of limitations period for federal antitrust complaints as animators ...

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