Wal-Mart to face massive class action suit

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SAN FRANCISCO – A sharply divided federal appeals court on Monday exposed Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to billions of dollars in legal damages when it ruled a massive class action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination over pay for female workers can go to trial.

In its 6-5 ruling, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said the world's largest private employer will have to face charges that it pays women less than men for the same jobs and that female employees receive fewer promotions and have to wait longer for those promotions than male counterparts.

The retailer has fiercely fought the lawsuit since it was first filed by six women in federal court in San Francisco in 2001 and said it would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100426/ap_on_bi_ge/us_wal_mart_discrimination

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Can shareholders sue the women/the court if they win for causing their value to go down?

In all seriousness though, unless they're extremely hot women being denied promotions, this lawsuit shouldn't stand. I mean if she's Fugly, the boss isn't going to want to bang her, therefore she's not promotable.... Just sayin.

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Lucky for Walmart, the Ninth Circuit has about a 90% reversal rate, the highest in the nation, when SCOTUS agrees to review the case.

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This is a well documented and forthright case. Wal-Mart will pay up on this one. If not in CA, it will be tried and decided elsewhere....