Following the settlement between the Department of Justice and seven prominent high tech companies regarding the companies’ conduct in agreeing not to cold call employees of the other companies – which the DOJ concluded was “anticompetitive” and per se unlawful – a class of software engineers filed a civil lawsuit against the same companies for alleged antitrust violations. The employers claimed that the plaintiffs could not establish facts evidencing an antitrust violation – i.e., a conspiracy to suppress wages – and moved to dismiss the claims. However, the court determined that the plaintiff alleged sufficient facts to support their claims. Thus the antitrust claims survived dismissal and the case continues.