Google's Page, Brin, and Schmidt to testify in employee antritrust case

February 20, 2013

Google's famed "triumvirate"—Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt—will give oral statements over the coming weeks as part of a private antitrust suit brought against Google and six other technology companies by former employees. The civil suit, filed last year in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Google, Apple, Intel, Adobe, and several other tech giants in the region conspired to enter into "no-poach" agreements to eliminate competition between them by restricting their hiring of each other's employees. Google CEO Larry Page and cofounder Sergey Brin are scheduled to give depositions on the charges on March 22 and March 19, respectively, a court document filed Feb. 15 said. Depositions are oral statements given under oath that are often taken to examine potential witnesses that could be used later in the trial. Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt will also give his deposition on Wednesday at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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