Wal-Mart bias case goes to trial
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A US court rules female staff claiming discrimination by retail  giant Wal-Mart can go ahead with a class action.
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Wal-Mart chief executive Lee Scott led a media charge yesterday to counter criticism that the world's largest retailer is a behemoth that takes advantage of its workers and stifles competition.
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A Middlesex Superior Court judge in Cambridge has certified a class-action lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart Corp. by workers at its North Attleborough store. The order by Judge Ernest B. Murphy allows more than 55,000 workers nationwide to seek redress as a group, according to San Francisco lawyer Carolyn Beasley Burton, who represents the plaintiffs. The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart managers ...
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The lawyers behind a  record-setting sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores  on Tuesday filed a new lawsuit against Costco Wholesale Corp.  claiming it barred women from top store management jobs.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The defense in Richard Scrushy's corporate fraud trial sought to poke holes yesterday in the claims of a key witness who contends the fired HealthSouth chief executive was behind a scheme to overstate earnings.
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Wal-Mart is a magnet for employee complaints about off-the-clock work, and faces lawsuits in more than 30 states.
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The trial of Richard Scrushy got under way on Tuesday, with a prosecutor calling Mr. Scrushy the mastermind of an accounting fraud at the hospital chain he founded.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's biggest retailer, launched a national advertising campaign on Thursday to burnish an image tarnished by allegations that it discriminates in hiring and promotions and drives smaller rivals out of business.
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The lawsuit between coupon company Valassis and direct-mail marketer Advo will go to trial in December.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's number one retailer, is in talks with the US Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to settle an investigation into whether it knowingly hired contractors who used illegal immigrants to clean its stores.
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America&#39;s largest tobacco companies go on trial on Tuesday as they face a $280bn (Â£156bn) government lawsuit. Opening arguments will be heard in the case, in which the Justice Department accuses the companies
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NEW YORK -- Lawyers for Martha Stewart have told a federal appeals court that she suffered a &quot;fundamentally unfair&quot; trial at the hands of prosecutors who incorrectly suggested she was accused of insider trading.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's  biggest retailer, on Thursday launched a national advertising  campaign to burnish an image that has been tarnished by claims  about its hiring practices, stance toward labor unions and  actions against smaller competitors.
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WASHINGTON  - Major cigarette makers go on trial on Tuesday in the U.S. government's $280 billion racketeering case that charges the tobacco industry with deliberately deceiving the public about the risks of smoking since the 1950s.
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The largest sexual discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history moved forward against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday when a federal appeals court approved class-action status for a group of women who claim the retailer was biased in pay and promotion.
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Lawyers leading a record-setting  sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores said on Tuesday  they filed a lawsuit against Costco Wholesale Corp. COST.O,  claiming the company kept women out of top store management  posts.
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Three people who allegedly sent America Online customers millions of junk e-mail messages touting penny stocks and other Internet gimmicks went on trial Tuesday in the nation&#39;s first such felony case.