Electric Boat, Ingalls ask US judge to reconsider dismissing no-poach claims
( December 15, 2025, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Electric Boat and Ingalls Shipbuilding asked a US district court to reconsider dismissing naval engineers’ antitrust claims over no-poach agreements, saying they have learned that the allegations about what confidential witnesses purportedly said about Electric Boat and Ingalls are false and incomplete. “Fourth Circuit law is clear that this Court can and should consider the entirety of a witness’s alleged statement in adjudicating a motion to dismiss, and that Plaintiff cannot evade dismissal by including an inaccurate or incomplete version of what a witness said,” the companies argued. See attached file....
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