Question: Read the case below and write briefly what is this case about. ASHER v . PARSONS ELECTRIC P 1 ( 2 0 1 8 )

Read the case below and write briefly what is this case about.
ASHER v. PARSONS ELECTRIC P1(2018)
Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Division No.1.
Brad D. ASHER; Kirby L. Jones, Jr.; Armando Belmonte; Floyd Kendrick; Larry Martinez; Steve Cartwright; Kevin Smith; David Walton; Gary Southard; Micah Kendrick; Caleb Beck; Ricky Spradlin; Steve Thoma; Carson Clayton; Eron Gibson; Joseph Chandler; Warren Harvey, Jr.; Jim Self; Aaron Gregory; Billy Capps; Patrick Skaggs; Edward Perkins; Derek Hoefgen; John Miller; James Patterson; Ron Reno; Tim Nicholson; Eric Moore; Billy Spain, Jr.; Wayne Bethany; Steve Anderson; Craig Ivy; Cougun Ledford; Jesse Gerken; Robert Calvin; Jason Thompson; Lavelle Cole; Rickey Carroll; Sharon Carwright; Daniel Kevin Polovina; Phillip Hudgings; Denzel Clark; Matthew Moss; Ted Zellers; Terry Matthews; David Britt; Allan Seher; Perry Carpenter; Khamphachanh Nassath; and Jeremy Voss, Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. PARSONS ELECTRIC, L.L.C.; P1 Group, Inc.; and Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, Defendants/Appellees.
Case No.117,203
Decided: December 21,2018
Frank W. Frasier, FRASIER, FRASIER & HICKMAN, L.L.P., Tulsa, Oklahoma, For Plaintiffs/Appellants, Andre' B. Caldwell, OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, For Defendant/Appellee Parsons Electric, L.L.C., Denelda Richardson, RHODES, HIERONYMUS, JONES, TUCKER & GABLE, P.L.L.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, For Defendant/Appellee P1 Group, Inc., Mark Waller, J. David Jorgenson, ALLER JORGENSON WARZYNSKI, P.L.L.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Ronald W. Taylor. VENABLE, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland, For Defendant/Appellee Whiting-Turner Contracting Company.
1 This appeal arises from claims asserted by fifty electrical workers (Plaintiffs) against Parsons Electric, LLC (Parsons), P1 Group, Inc. (P1 Group), and Whiting-Turner Contracting Company (WT). Plaintiffs brought claims for blacklisting against Parsons, P1 Group, and WT, and claims for breach of contract against Parsons and P1 Group. The trial court held (1) Parsons and P1 Group were in a joint venture and the alleged blacklist was therefore not published to a third party, (2) there was no evidence of breach of contract by Parsons or P1 Group, and (3) WT had no involvement in creating or disseminating the alleged blacklist. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of all three defendants. Because there was no dispute of material fact and the defendants were entitled to judgment as a matter of law, we affirm.
2 Plaintiffs' claims arose from work related to a construction projection in Pryor, Oklahoma (the Project). On April 1,2014, Parsons and P1 Group entered into a joint venture agreement (the Joint Venture) in order to submit a bid for the electrical work for the Project. The general contractor for the Project, WT, awarded the electrical subcontract to the Joint Venture. As agreed, P1 Group managed the manpower, while Parsons provided foremen and equipment for the Joint Venture.
3 During the course of the Project, a separate lawsuit arose in which the Plaintiffs alleged blacklisting by Parsons, P1 Group, WT, and other defendants, Kendrick, et. al. v. Allison-Smith Co., LLC., et al., No. CJ-2014-164,2014 WL 11128190(Mayes County filed Sept. 11,2014)(the Kendrick case). On February 13,2015, Parsons and P1 Group entered a notice of settlement in the Kendrick case. WT was not party to the February 2015 settlement and the Kendrick case is still ongoing.
4 Plaintiffs filed their petition in this case July 3,2017, bringing new claims for blacklisting and conspiracy to blacklist against Parsons, P1 Group, and WT. Plaintiffs also brought a claim for breach of contract against Parsons and P1 Group. Plaintiffs' claims in this case stemmed from a July 23,2015 email from a P1 Group employee to a Parsons employee regarding a list of names generated from P1 employment records (the List). The List indicated those persons who had been terminated from employment on the Project, along with the reasons for termination. Plaintiffs argued that this communication constituted blacklisting and thus a breach of the settlement agreement in the Kendrick case.
5 P1 Group filed its motion for summary judgment November 13,2017. P1 Group asserted that summary judgment should be granted because (1) only six of the fifty Plaintiffs were included on the List, (2) P1 Group had never employed thirty-one of Plaintiffs, (3) the email between the P1 Group and Parsons employees was an internal communication and therefore not blacklisting, and (4) even if the communication was between distinct entities, the communication was privileged. P1 Group further asserted that Plaintiffs' claim for conspiracy was without legal support, as the blacklisting statute did not provide for a conspiracy cause of action.
6 Parsons also moved for summary judgment November 22,2017. Like P1 Group, Parsons asserted that forty-four of the fifty Plaintiffs were not named on the List. Additionally, Parsons stated it had never employed any of

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