Shipbuilders file reply in support of US Supreme Court review of no-poach case

( December 9, 2025, 20:36 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls and other defendant shipbuilders filed a reply in support of their petition for the US Supreme Court to review an antitrust case brought by naval engineers, arguing that the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's ruling will permit plaintiffs to survive a motion to dismiss in virtually all antitrust conspiracy cases. “The Fourth Circuit’s expansive reconfiguration of fraudulent concealment gravely threatens the important interests that statutes of limitations exist to protect. Antitrust plaintiffs will surely beat a path to the Fourth Circuit because they know that they can seek treble damages based on long-stale claims stretching back years or decades and be confident that they will survive a motion to dismiss—and thereby exert enormous settlement pressure—by alleging nothing more than an antitrust conspiracy that the conspirators chose not to put to paper,” they said.See attached file. ...