Wal-Mart faces court-backed class action suit
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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 women who claim the retailer was biased in pay and promotion.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Just days after the arthritis drug Vioxx was pulled from store shelves, a class action lawsuit has been launched in BC Supreme Court alleging negligence by drug maker Merck and Co.
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The world's biggest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is considering joining the fray of groups offering to rescue Japan's third-largest supermarket chain, the struggling Daiei, a report said.
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A Los Angeles man filed a class action suit yesterday against Microsoft, claiming that the company manufactured and sold thousands of defective Xbox video game systems.
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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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The biggest sexual discrimination case in U.S. history advanced against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday when a top court ruled that more than a million women could join a suit charging bias in pay and promotions.
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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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Women employees of Costco Wholesale Corp. filed a sex discrimination class action suit today, alleging that the giant retailer imposes a glass ceiling that prevents women from reaching the top and keeps them in lower paid positions.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, will pay &#36;135,540 to settle federal charges that it broke child labor laws, the Labor Department said Saturday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the nation's largest private employer, lost a bid to prevent 2 million current and female former workers from proceeding as a group with sex bias claims in the largest employment lawsuit in U S history.
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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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A former user of the pain relief medicine Vioxx is suing the drug maker and Wal-Mart in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in circuit court in Hempstead County, Ark.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's largest retailer, faces a federal probe after the company said a technician intercepted text messages and improperly recorded phone calls with a New York Times reporter.
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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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The New Jersey State Supreme Court on Thursday certified a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed by employees who allege the retailer deprived them of rest and meal breaks while forcing them to work "off the clock."
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Walgreen, the largest chemist in the US, is sued for allegedly discriminating against black workers.
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Sears, Roebuck & Co. S.N, 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.