Netflix Loses Appeal in Lawsuit Over Poaching of Fox Executives

Netflix Inc. lost its challenge to an order that the streaming giant stop poaching fixed-term employees from Twentieth Century Fox, after a California appellate court upheld the injunction on Thursday.

Fox sued the streaming service in 2016, alleging Netflix enticed certain Fox executives to leave the company, breaking fixed-term contracts.

A state trial court in Los Angeles granted an injunction blocking Netflix from soliciting Fox employees on fixed-term employment agreements or inducing them to breach their agreements.

The California Court of Appeal, Second District, upheld the injunction, rejecting Netflix’s argument that Fox’s fixed-term contracts were unconscionable and against public ...