Reuters: U.S.: U.S. judge denies class certification sought by women suing Wal-Mart

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U.S. judge denies class certification sought by women suing Wal-Mart Aug 3rd 2013, 00:01 By Casey Sullivan and Dan Levine Fri Aug 2, 2013 8:01pm EDT (Reuters) - In another setback for women suing Wal-Mart, a U.S. judge in San Francisco rejected on Friday an attempt by women seeking a class certification to bring reformulated sex discrimination claims against the company. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer denied a motion for class certification brought by women in California alleging the world's largest retailer denied them pay raises and promotions because of their gender. The claims were filed as a revised lawsuit after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a larger class-action sex discrimination against Wal-Mart Stores Inc in 2011 that claimed female employees at 3,400 Walmart stores nationwide were underpaid and given fewer promotions. The California lawsuit was part of a broader strategy by women Wal-Mart workers to bring more narrowly tailored class actions in an attempt to seek damages, targeting Wal-Mart's employment practices in regions throughout the country. Judge Breyer said in his ruling that the women could not bring their allegations as a class action because they had not established that their claims of the company's employment practice were linked to a classwide policy. But he said: "This order does not consider whether plaintiffs themselves were victims of discrimination as alleged in their complaint; those individual claims shall proceed in this litigation." Plaintiffs and Wal-Mart lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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