Court Approves Class-Action Suit Against Wal-Mart
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The ruling was a big setback to Wal-Martâs efforts to block the nationâs largest sex discrimination lawsuit.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a class-action lawsuit against Philip Morris USA, a unit of Altria Group Inc., should not be decided in federal court, handing a defeat to the tobacco company.
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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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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.
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Residents of a Los Angeles suburb  are suing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and their city government in a  bid to stop the world's largest retailer from opening a store  in their area.
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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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Three Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hourly  workers in California have sued the company for failing to pay  them for all the time they worked.
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Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has been given the right to appeal a US judge's order giving the go-ahead for a huge sex discrimination lawsuit.
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Walgreen Co.  illegally assigned thousands of African-American employees to low-performing stores and stores in black neighborhoods, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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A judge denied class action status for a New York lawsuit claiming Wal-Mart Stores Inc. deprived hourly workers of wages, requiring employees to work "off the clock" before or after their shifts.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa - A woman's fall in a puddle of vomit has resulted in a lawsuit against Wal-Mart. June Medema, slipped in the vomit at a Davenport Wal-Mart on June 13, 2005, according to the lawsuit, filed by Medema and her husband, James, in Scott County District Court earlier this month.
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By PETE YOST  WASHINGTON - 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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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. female workers who are seeking billions of dollars for what they allege are discriminatory pay and promotion practices should be able to sue the company as a group, a lawyer told a US court.
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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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The agreement with the maker of Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway toys settles a class-action lawsuit by thousands of families who purchased lead-tainted products.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is being sued in a federal court by a job applicant who says it discriminates against black employees seeking work as truck drivers, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Washington State's highest court on Thursday let a class-action lawsuit alleging overcharging by Cingular Wireless go forward. The state Supreme Court said a clause in Cingular's contract that prevented subscribers from starting class-action suits was unfair and sent the case back to the trial court in King County where it began. The suit was filed in 2004 on behalf of a small number of Washington customers of Cingular Wireless, now part of AT&T Inc. It said the carrier advertised free roaming in areas covered by AT&T Wireless, which was then a separate company, but hit the customers with roaming charges anyway. It also said customers were improperly charged for long distance on some calls, said Douglas Dunham, an attorney representing the plaintiffs. They alleged Cingular had overcharged customers between $1 and $40 per month. The plaintiffs' attempt to start a class-action suit was blocked by a clause in the Cingular customer contract, which said disgruntled subscribers couldn't form or join classes to sue the carrier. As a result, they didn't even get to the stage of finding out how many customers in Washington or nationally may have been affected, Dunham said. Now that they have won on appeal, the plaintiffs will pursue a class action, he said. AT&T is studying the ruling, spokesman Walt Sharp said. The carrier could appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to F. Paul Bland, staff attorney at Public Justice, a public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C., that helped argue the plaintiffs' case. In cases involving small amounts of money, consumers need to be able to pursue class actions, Bland said. "Cingular was trying to write a contract term that would make it impossible for their customers to vindicate their legal rights ... if Cingular cheated them out of small sums of money," Bland said. "Even though Cingular broke its contract and engaged in a bait-and-switch that netted it millions of dollars, almost no individuals would ever be able to take their claims forward and get justice." The decision will make it harder for other companies, such as credit card issuers, to introduce similar bans on class-action suits in Washington, Dunham predicted. In the Cingular case, it will probably take several months to get the class of plaintiffs certified and to gauge damages, he said. The case might not go to trial for two years, he added.