A judge has rejected Silicon Valley’s anti-poaching settlement

Remember the class-action lawsuit that Adobe, Apple and Google faced over no-hiring deals? Well, it turns out that the $324.5 million settlement the trio reached isn’t going to be honored by the judge. As The New York Times reports, judge Lucy H. Koh has rejected the low-ball figure because, among other reasons, it reeks of an “overarching conspiracy.” Koh notes that there’s ample evidence to support this and that late Apple CEO Steve Jobs may even have been the prime suspect in said conspiracy.