Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg is the latest Silicon Valley insider being deposed in a long-running antitrust case against Apple, Google, Intuit, and others. Bloomberg reports that Judge Lucy Koh has scheduled Sandberg to answer questions about her time at Google, one of several companies accused of making "gentleman's agreements" to avoid competing for employees and keep salaries artificially low. Neither Facebook nor Sandberg are defendants in the case, but plaintiffs hope her testimony could shed light on the extent to which executives were involved in crafting no-hire agreements. Earlier this year, Koh ordered that Apple CEO Tim Cook be deposed as well.
The Department of Justice has already settled a suit against the companies: in 2010,...
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