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.
November 24, 2025
A former naval engineer accusing shipbuilders of conspiring to suppress industry wages has told the U.S. Supreme Court that their petition for review of a Fourth Circuit decision reviving her proposed class action rests on a rule the panel never adopted.
September 17, 2025
Shipbuilders and designers accused of conspiring to suppress industry wages urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fourth Circuit decision that revived a proposed class action against them, saying the allegedly untimely antitrust claims threaten ruinous damages.
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.
July 24, 2025
A proposed class of naval engineers suing the nation's major military shipbuilders and contractors over an alleged no-poach wage-fixing scheme may have a new named plaintiff to bring to the case.
July 08, 2025
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday sent a revived class action alleging that shipbuilding military contractors used no-poach agreements to suppress wages back to district court, rejecting the contractors' motion for a stay while they prepare to send a certiorari petition to the U.S. Supreme Court.
June 16, 2025
The Fourth Circuit has kept its revival of a no-poach wage-fixing case against some of the nation's biggest warship makers intact, rejecting a petition to rehear the case en banc after a three-judge panel kicked it back to district court last month.
May 09, 2025
A split Fourth Circuit panel Friday revived a putative class action accusing major shipbuilders and naval engineering consultants of an illegal "no-poach" conspiracy, with the majority holding that just because the alleged conspirators never formalized their purported agreements in writing, it doesn't mean the conspiracy can't be unlawful.