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Plaintiff In Tech Hiring Suit Asks Judge To Reject Settlement


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Apple computer shown as Google introduces Buzz in Mountain View(Reuters) - One of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit that accuses tech firms including Apple Inc and Google Inc of conspiring to hold down salaries has asked the court to reject a $324 million settlement negotiated by his own lawyers. Michael Devine, one of the four named plaintiffs in a class action of 64,000 people, described the tentative settlement as "grossly inadequate" in a letter to the judge in the case. The proposed settlement is about one-tenth of experts' estimates of potential damages and is lacking in any penalty, he said. "The class wants a chance at real justice," Devine wrote in the letter to judge Lucy Koh on Sunday.




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