SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A California woman is suing Pixar after she claims it violated the Sherman Act by entering into anti-solicitation and compensation-suppressing agreements with other animation studios.
The genesis of the anti-solicitation and compensation-suppressing agreements at issue was a bilateral agreement originally entered into in the 1980s by George Lucas, the founder of Lucasfilm, Pixar President Ed Catmull and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, but this bilateral anti-solicitation agreement metastasized over the years into an industry-wide wage-fixing cartel that included the Walt Disney Company, as well as others, according to a complaint filed Sept. 17 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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