April 08, 2026
Major shipbuilders have asked a Virginia federal court to override a magistrate judge's decision permitting a former naval engineer to amend her lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to suppress naval architect and engineer wages, arguing the plaintiff waited too long to add another engineer.
March 18, 2026
Affiliates of Huntington Ingalls, Marinette Marine and Serco have reached settlements resolving the claims against them in a case accusing some of the country's biggest shipbuilders of conspiring to suppress naval architect and engineer wages.
March 13, 2026
Some of the country's biggest shipbuilders accused of conspiring to suppress naval architect and engineer wages told a Virginia federal judge a proposed class waited too long to add a new named plaintiff who worked in the industry more recently.
January 05, 2026
A naval architecture and marine engineering firm has settled claims it participated in an illegal conspiracy to suppress wages alongside some of the country's biggest warship makers, according to recent federal court filings.
December 12, 2025
Shipbuilders and design consultants accused of illegally conspiring to suppress industry wages are clashing with a former naval engineer over what various witnesses told her in support of her proposed class action against the companies.
December 01, 2025
A Virginia federal court has refused to toss a proposed class action accusing some of the country's biggest warship makers and naval engineering consultants of participating in an illegal conspiracy to suppress wages after the Fourth Circuit revived the case earlier this year.
October 28, 2025
A Virginia federal magistrate judge ordered a naval engineer to name all the witnesses her attorneys spoke to, and all the information about those interviews, as the nation's largest military shipbuilders seek to argue she's too late to accuse them of agreeing not to poach each other's workers.
October 23, 2025
One of the naval engineers suing the nation's largest military shipbuilders over an alleged no-poach agreement said she's already identified 20 witnesses and produced more than 3,000 pages of documents in discovery, but the companies are still asking for attorney work product in their latest demands.
September 16, 2025
A maritime jobs recruitment company has settled claims it participated in an illegal no-poach conspiracy to suppress wages among some of the country's biggest warship makers and naval engineering consultants, court records show.
August 26, 2025
A Fourth Circuit decision that revived a proposed class action accusing some of the country's biggest warship makers and naval engineering consultants of participating in an illegal no-poach conspiracy to suppress wages leaves a Virginia federal judge free to dismiss the case, according to the companies.