Zachary Glubiak, an associate in the Antitrust practice, represents employees, consumers, and small businesses in nationwide class actions seeking to recover for overpriced goods and underpaid wages, with a focus on labor-related violations of the antitrust laws. Zach also maintains a robust pro bono appellate practice, principally on behalf of civil plaintiffs in the state and federal appellate courts.
Zach first joined Cohen Milstein in 2020, and he rejoined the firm following a clerkship with the Honorable Randolph D. Moss of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Previously, he served as the John Marshall Fellow in the Solicitor General’s Office of the Virginia Attorney General. In this capacity, Zach litigated constitutional and other high-profile matters on behalf of the Commonwealth, including defending the constitutionality of recently enacted gun safety legislation and the lawfulness of the Governor’s Covid 19-related executive orders. He primarily practiced in the state and federal appellate courts, serving as lead counsel in appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, presenting oral arguments before both the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Court of Appeals of Virginia, and drafting multiple successful briefs in opposition to certiorari in counseled appeals before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Prior to joining the Solicitor General’s Office, Zach clerked for the Honorable Pamela A. Harris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
During law school, Zach participated in the Community Law Clinic, served as Professor Pamela S. Karlan’s teaching assistant for her Constitutional Law course, and co-founded the Stanford Law School’s Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Association.
Prior to law school, Zach spent three years as a world history teacher, coach, and advisor at KIPP NYC College Prep, a public charter high school in New York City’s South Bronx neighborhood.
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
- Stanford Law School, J.D., 2018
- Fordham University, M.S.T., 2014
- Columbia University, B.A., 2012
Law Clerk, the Hon. Randolph D. Moss, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (2021 – 2022)
John Marshall Fellow, Office of the Solicitor General, Commonwealth of Virginia (2019 – 2020)
Law Clerk, the Hon. Pamela A. Harris, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit (2018 – 2019)
Current Cases
Albert v. Global Tel*Link Corp.
Albert et al. v. Global Tel*Link Corp. et al. (D. Md.): Cohen Milstein and co-counsel, including the Human Rights Defense Center, and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs represent families of inmates in prisons and correctional facilities throughout the United States. Plaintiffs allege that telecommunications giants, Global Tel* Link Corp., Securus Technologies, LLC, and 3Cinteractive Corp., engaged in a price-fixing and kickback scheme to inflate the prices of single call collect calls placed by inmates in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. On October 31, 2024, the Court granted preliminary approval of a $17 million settlement against GTL.
Brown v. JBS USA Food Company, et al.
Brown v. JBS USA Food Company, et al. (D. Col.): Cohen Milstein serves as Interim Co-Lead Counsel in this wage suppression antitrust class action against eleven of country’s largest beef and pork producers and several of their subsidiaries, including JBS USA Food, Tyson Foods, Cargill, Hormel Foods, American Foods, Perdue Farms, Smithfield Foods, and National Beef Packing. On March 8, 2024, Plaintiffs filed motions for preliminary approval of a total $127.2 million in settlements against Tyson Foods and JBS USA Food. Pending final approval, settlements thus far total $200 million.
In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation
In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ill.): Cohen Milstein represents a class of broiler chicken consumers in a suit alleging that the nation’s largest chicken producers, including Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods, conspired to raise the price of chicken. As of July 25, 2023, settlements against defendants total $183.9 million.
In re Da Vinci Surgical Robot Antitrust Litigation
In re Da Vinci Surgical Robot Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein serves as Interim Co-Lead Counsel in this consolidated antitrust class action against Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Plaintiffs allege that Intuitive engages in an anticompetitive scheme under which it ties the purchase or lease of its must-have, market-dominating da Vinci surgical robot to the additional purchases of (i) robot maintenance and repair services and (ii) unnecessarily large numbers of the surgical instruments, known as EndoWrists, used to perform surgery with the robot—a violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act.
Jien, et al. v. Perdue Farms, Inc., et al.
Jien, et al. v. Perdue Farms, Inc., et al. (D. Md.): Cohen Milstein serves as Co-Lead Counsel in this putative wage and hour suppression class action against the nation’s largest chicken and turkey producers conspired to suppress their compensation. Settlements that are public total $339 million thus far. Litigation against Defendant Agri Stats continues.
Scharpf, et al. v. General Dynamics Corp., et al.
Scharpf, et al. v. General Dynamics Corp., et al. (E.D. Va.): Cohen Milstein represents naval architects and marine engineers in a putative antitrust wage suppression class action against the nation’s largest military shipbuilders and naval engineering consultancy firms. Plaintiffs allege that starting in at least 2000, Defendants engaged in a “no poach” conspiracy by adhering to an informal “gentlemen’s agreement” among themselves not to recruit each other’s naval engineers.
Amicus Briefs
Estados Unidos Mexicanos v. Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al.
Estados Unidos Mexicanos v. Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al. (D. Mass.): On March 21, 2023, Cohen Milstein filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of senior law enforcement officers in support of the United States of Mexico, plaintiff-appellant, before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Amici argue for the reversal of the district court’s grant of defendants’ motion to dismiss in Estados Unidos Mexicanos v. Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al., Case No. 1:21-CV-11269-FDS, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
August 22, 2024
Hormel, Meat Plants To Settle Wage-Fixing Claims For $13.5M
Hormel Foods Corp. and two meat processing plants have agreed to a $13.5 million settlement in a Colorado wage-fixing suit, joining a host of companies that have reached deals to end claims that they colluded to depress wages. In a joint notice of settlement filed Wednesday in Colorado federal court, attorneys for plant workers said […]
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July 31, 2024
Antitrust Group Backs Naval Engineers’ No-Poach Case
An advocacy group that supports robust enforcement of antitrust laws has urged the Fourth Circuit to revive a case from former naval engineers accusing military shipbuilders of using secret “no-poach” agreements to avoid competing for workers. The Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws filed an amicus brief on Tuesday arguing that a federal court in […]
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June 20, 2024
Meat Plant Workers Seek OK On Latest $4M Wage-Fix Deal
Red meat processing plant workers have sought preliminary approval for their latest settlement over wage-fixing claims, a $4 million deal that adds American Foods Group LLC to the list of companies to cut deals that also includes JBS, Tyson, Perdue, Seaboard, Triumph and consulting firm Webber Meng Sahl & Co. Under the deal first teased […]
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February 28, 2024
$11M Meat Co. Deals Get Early OK In Colo. Wage Fixing Suit
A Colorado federal judge Tuesday gave initial approval to class settlements with two meat producers and a consulting company, requiring $11.25 million in payments to resolve claims that they participated in a nationwide scheme to fix and depress wages for meat plant workers. In an order, U.S. District Judge Philip A. Brimmer advanced a deal […]
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October 10, 2023
Shipbuilders Accused Of No-Poach ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’
A pair of former warship designers filed a proposed class action in Virginia federal court against two major shipbuilders for the U.S. military, General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries, and other companies allegedly involved in a decades-long conspiracy to suppress their wages through a no-poach “gentlemen’s agreement.” Plaintiffs Susan Scharpf and Anthony D’Armiento are seeking […]
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October 27, 2023
Zachary Glubiak Invited to Speak to ABA on the Standard of Review in Labor Market Antitrust Cases
Zachary Glubiak, an associate in our Antitrust practice, will speak to the ABA Civil Practice & Procedure Committee about the standard of review in labor market antitrust cases. The thirty-minute Zoom program will offer the perspective of lawyers with experience on both the plaintiffs’ and defendants’ sides of recent no poach and wage fixing cases.
Events
May 26, 2023
4th Circ. Revives Prison Phone Price-Fixing RICO Claims
The families of prisoners will get another shot at seeking damages on their racketeering claim against three companies accused of conspiring to inflate the cost of calls made from U.S. prisons, after the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday that the claims alleged direct injury to thousands of families as well as the government. The unanimous published […]
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April 3, 2023
Perdue Plant Workers’ $60M Wage-Fixing Deal Gets Initial OK
A Maryland federal judge on Monday gave her preliminary blessing to Perdue Farms’ $60.7 million settlement with workers who claim the company conspired to keep wages low at its poultry processing plants, certifying a nationwide settlement class of past and present Perdue poultry workers. U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher granted preliminary approval to the […]
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December 8, 2022
Perdue Settles Plant Workers’ Wage-Fixing Claims
Perdue Farms has agreed to settle employee claims in two separate states where the company plotted to depress wages, according to notices filed by plant employees in both Maryland and Colorado federal courts. While neither party divulged any details about the potential deals, the proposed class of Perdue employees said in both notices on Wednesday […]
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November 15, 2022
Beef, Pork Producers Accused of Wage-Fixing Conspiracy
The largest U.S. producers of beef and pork illegally conspired to depress the wages of hundreds of thousands of meat plant workers since 2014, workers alleged in a proposed class action in Colorado federal court. In their complaint filed Friday, a trio of beef and pork processing plant workers said a group of red meat […]
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September 12, 2022
Poultry Workers’ $85M Antitrust Deal Ready for Judge’s Approval
A class of current and former poultry workers who alleged major U.S. chicken processors conspired to suppress wages has asked a Maryland federal court to approve $84.8 million in new settlements, pushing the total recovery so far in the litigation to more than $134 million. The plaintiffs’ attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher on […]
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