June 08, 2012
A California federal judge on Friday said he had serious concerns about the viability of allegations in a refiled case accusing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of discrimination, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned certification of a 1.5 million-woman class, according to people present at the hearing.
March 30, 2012
Plaintiffs in a decade-old gender discrimination suit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. argued Friday that the U.S. Supreme Court's decertification of their original class does not bar consideration of modified classes and that their amended class claims are not time-barred.
March 22, 2012
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Wednesday told a California federal court that the remaining class claims in the once-massive Dukes gender discrimination suit against it are time-barred, saying only individual claims can proceed.
January 17, 2012
A narrowed complaint in a closely watched gender discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hasn't fixed "fatal defects" identified by the U.S. Supreme Court when it overturned certification of a 1.5 million-woman class in June, Wal-Mart told a California federal court Monday.
October 27, 2011
Women who launched a sex discrimination action against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on behalf of a nationwide class of 1.5 million current and former workers amended their complaint Thursday, narrowing the case to allege female employees in California were unfairly treated by the retail giant.
August 19, 2011
A California federal judge ruled Friday that women in an enormous sex discrimination suit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. would have until late October to refile individual actions against the company after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled they could not sue as a single class.
July 22, 2011
A California federal judge cut short a hearing Friday in the epic sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., leaving plaintiffs in the dark about the next step in the litigation after the U.S. Supreme Court decertified the class of 1.5 million women.
June 27, 2011
Attorneys for current and former female Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employees told a judge in California Friday they may seek to certify multiple, narrower classes after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed certification of their class of 1.5 million members in the largest sex discrimination case ever brought in the U.S.
October 21, 2010
In its petition to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the certification of a class of 1 million female employees, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wrongly suggests a split between appellate courts and seeks to second-guess case-specific findings that do not come close to meeting the requirements for certiorari, say plaintiffs in the sex discrimination case.
August 25, 2010
A federal appeals court ignored existing rules for class certification and created a three-way circuit split on certification issues in in granting class status to more than 1 million female employees, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Wednesday in seeking high court intervention.