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Litigation

Apr. 5, 2016

Fox subsidiary settles in anti-poaching case

The lawsuit claims that studios entered into a "gentleman's agreement" that deprives workers of wages.

By Steven Crighton
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Blue Sky Studios broke with some of Hollywood's top studios as it agreed to pay $5.9 million to settle a potential class action that accuses the studios of entering into a wage-fixing and anti-poaching agreement.

"The judge should preliminarily approve the proposed settlement as fair, reasonable, and adequate," plaintiff's attorney Jeff D. Friedman of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP wrote in...

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