Jimmy John’s No-Poach Antitrust Case Ends With Confidential Deal

A former Jimmy John’s LLC worker has settled and dropped his antitrust challenge to the now-defunct employee “no poach” pact among the sandwich chain’s different franchise locations, about three months after a federal judge in Illinois declined to declare the case a class action.

The company and ex-worker, Donald Conrad, filed a joint stipulation voluntarily dismissing the case with prejudice from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, where they had previously informed Judge Nancy Rosenstengel of a settlement in principle on undisclosed terms.

Rosenstengel denied Conrad’s bid for class action status in late July, saying the ...