Court OKs class action suit against Wal-Mart
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A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a discrimination lawsuit on behalf of women who have worked for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could go forward as a class-action suit.
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A federal appeals court today cleared the way for Whole Foods Market to buy rival organic grocer Wild Oats Markets.
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Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP ("Lerach Coughlin") (http://www.lerachlaw.com/cases/dellinc/) today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas on behalf of purchasers of Dell Inc.
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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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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. A Mississippi man is suing Wal-Mart, claiming the world&#39;s largest retailer discriminates against blacks from seeking truck-driving jobs in 12 Southern states, including Virginia.
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Supermarket giant Wal-Mart agrees to pay $14.5m to settle a lawsuit over gun sales violations in California between 2000 and 2003.
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Wal-Mart has been sued in federal court by a man who claims the world&#39;s largest retailer discriminates against blacks in 12 Southern states from seeking truck-driving jobs.
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A federal appeals court gave the green light for the largest sex discrimination case in US history to proceed against giant retailer Wal-Mart Stores.
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State appellate courts in Missouri and New Mexico on Tuesday upheld decisions to grant class-action status to lawsuits alleging Wal-Mart Stores Inc. deprived hourly workers of wages, requiring them to work "off the clock" before or after shifts.
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A $200 billion U.S. lawsuit filed by  "light" cigarette smokers gained class action status on Monday,  hammering shares of U.S. tobacco companies.
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December 30, 2004 -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. female workers who are seeking billions of dollars for discriminatory pay and promotion practices should be able to sue the company as a group, a lawyer representing the employees told a US court.
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The Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration Monday in an environmental lawsuit, allowing a company to seek recovery of some of its costs for voluntarily cleaning up a hazardous site.
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Washington State's highest court has given the green light for a class-action lawsuit.
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A pharmacist who claimed she was fired by Wal-Mart after asking to be paid the same as her male colleagues has won a nearly $2 million award against the retail giant.
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Sears, Roebuck & Co. , was sued this week by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which said the largest U.S. department store chain illegally fired a store manager because he was black.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest private employer, must face a class-action lawsuit alleging female employees were discriminated against in pay and promotions.
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Wal-Mart asked an appeals court to overturn a ruling allowing 1.6 million female workers seeking billions of dollars in back pay to sue the company for discrimination as a group.