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US Chamber of Commerce backs shipbuilders’ request for rehearing in no-poach suit

( May 30, 2025, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The US Chamber of Commerce filed a brief in support of General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls and other defendant shipbuilders’ request for a rehearing en banc of a decision that revived claims accusing them of conspiring not to recruit each other’s naval engineers. “The panel’s holding undermines the core purposes of limitations periods. It invites litigation over ancient conduct that cannot be fairly defended. It exposes businesses to indefinite liability for events that no employee remembers and no record explains. And it rewrites the doctrine of fraudulent concealment into an all-purpose escape hatch, untethered from the requirement of affirmative, deceptive conduct — an exception that swallows the rule,” it argued.See attached file. ...

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