The legal fight began in 2014 when former DreamWorks Animation employee Robert Nitsch Jr. filed an antitrust lawsuit against the major animation studios, following an investigation by the Department of Justice. Nitsch claimed a 1980s gentleman's agreement between Lucasfilm and Pixar to not poach each other's employees led to an industry-wide pact to keep the cost of labor low.
All of the defendants in the suit, Blue Sky Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Two Pic MC, Pixar, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks and The Walt Disney Company, have now reached settlements with class members. DreamWorks reached its $50 million settlement in October, leaving only Disney and its subsidiaries as holdouts........
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