Saks Wins as Court Affirms Employee No-Poach Suit Dismissal (1)

Saks Inc. and a group of luxury fashion houses prevailed Thursday in a suit alleging they refrained from recruiting one another’s retail employees, after the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling.

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in an order rejected the plaintiffs’ arguments that no-hire agreements are per se unlawful because they amount to a horizontal market allocation.

The order closes a case brought in 2020 by retail workers who alleged Saks, along with other fashion houses including Prada USA Corp., Gucci America Inc., Louis Vuitton USA Inc., Loro Piana & C., and ...