Wal-Mart Agrees to Give Women Extra Time to File Lawsuits
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. agreed that women planning to sue for sex bias after a group lawsuit representing more than 1 million workers was rejected by the Supreme Court should get an extra 90 days to file their cases, a lawyer for the company said today.
Theodore Boutrous, Wal-Mart’s attorney, told a federal judge that the company isn’t opposed to “start the clock fresh” on potential gender-bias claims that were blocked from being filed while Wal-Mart challenged the legality of the group lawsuit, the largest private gender-bias case in U.S. history. Lawyers for workers are seeking to extend the filing deadline by 120 days.