DreamWorks Animation, the Walt Disney Co., Sony Pictures Animation and Blue Sky Studios contend that an antitrust wage-fixing lawsuit filed by digital animation workers “comes far too late” and that their claims lack evidence.
The workers, in class action complaints filed last year, claimed that studios conspired via non-poaching agreements, and cite evidence uncovered in previous litigation against Lucasfilm and Pixar.
The studios, in a filing in federal court in San Jose, said that the new lawsuit “is futile as a matter of law and comes far too late. The statutes of limitations for their claims expired long ago.”
In their motion for dismissal, the studios say that the plaintiffs “allege no facts to support their improbable theory that the challenged conduct continued beyond” a Department of Justice investigation of Pixar and Lucasfilm, which led to a settlement.
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