Wal-Mart Sex-Bias Suit Given Class-Action Status
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
and CONSTANCE L. HAYS

Published: June 23, 2004

A federal judge ruled yesterday that a lawsuit that accuses Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of discriminating against women can proceed as a class action covering about 1.6 million current and former employees, making it by far the largest workplace-bias lawsuit in United States history."