Duke’s $19 Million Faculty No-Poach Settlement Gets Judge’s Nod

The professor leading antitrust litigation over an alleged faculty no-poach agreement between Duke University and the University of North Carolina persuaded a federal judge to approve a $19 million class action settlement with Duke that builds on an earlier $54.5 million deal.

Judge Catherine C. Eagles signed off Monday on the agreement, which ends the second successive lawsuit brought over the alleged no-poach pact in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The earlier case, which settled in 2019, involved only medical faculty.

“Continued litigation would involve considerable time and expense” and “the chance of no ...