Supreme Court to review Wal-Mart bias suit
Quick ReadThe justices stepped into a case Monday that could involve 500,000 to 1.5 million women who work or once worked at the world's largest private employer. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. calls it the largest employment class action in history.
Photo credit: Jason Andrew | A Walmart store in Valley Stream. (Nov. 26, 2010)
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will consider whether to keep alive the largest job discrimination case in U.S. history, a lawsuit against Wal-Mart that grew from a half-dozen women to a class action that could involve billions of dollars for more than a half million female workers.
Wal-Mart is trying to halt the lawsuit, with the backing of many other big companies concerned about rules for...
