Judge rejects Apple’s settlement – 99mac

Judge Lucy Koh think the score is too low, and has rejected the proposal for settlement including Apple and Google negotiated with the plaintiff’s attorneys.

In May 99mac wrote that the plaintiffs reject the proposed settlement in the class action lawsuit where Apple, Google, Adobe and Intel sued for having agreed not to recruit each other’s staff. The group consists of over 60 000 people and would, according to the Settlement proposals receive a share of $ 324 million, equivalent to 2.2 billion.

Now, the judge in the case, Lucy Koh, dismissed Settlement made up between the companies and the lawyers for the plaintiffs. According Recode consider Koh that the agreed sum in settlement is too low – the original amount claimed was $ 3 billion or 20 billion, which could be as much as 9 billion dollars (61 billion) because of the federal antitrust laws. According to Koh settlement must consist of “at least $ 380 million,” or 2.6 billion.

Much of the evidence in the case consists of emails sent between Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt. According to Lucy Koh, Steve Jobs was one of the central figures in the conspiracy, perhaps the most central. A trial in the case is scheduled for 10 September.