Wal-Mart asks appeals court to block suit (sex-discrimination lawsuit)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Lawyers for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT - news) urged a federal appeals court on Monday to block a sex-discrimination lawsuit against it that could cost the retailer an estimated billions of dollars.

The retailer is seeking to overturn a June 2004 U.S. District Court decision certifying as class-action a lawsuit that now covers more than 1.6 million women and charges Wal-Mart with discriminating against female workers in pay, promotions and training.

Attorneys for the six lead plaintiffs say the case is the largest civil-rights class-action in U.S. history ever certified and could cost Wal-Mart billions of dollars in economic losses.

But during a hearing in San Francisco, Wal-Mart attorney Ted Boutrous said the appellate judges should overturn the lower court's decision because the charges of the six lead plaintiffs were not typical or common of the entire class.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/retail_walmart_lawsuit_dc

i hope they get their azzes sued off!

They've got more than enough money and power to get out of this.

i.e. effective death penalty for juridical persons.

Basically, Walmart is saying the suit should be dismissed because they may lose. Well, if they didn't always consistently go out of their way to NOT do the right thing, the company wouldn't have gotten itself in this pickle. This is just another way in which Wal-Mart is a cancer on the American (and global) landscape that must be destroyed.

Maybe they simply shouldn't have violated the law that if busted
would bring down the company.

If that court blocks this I will scream.

Some important DU threads about Wal-Mart, Costco and Target
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4286480&mesg_id=4286859

See also:

Wal-Mart: We're too big to be sued
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4285331