Wal-Mart Stores Inc. must face an 11-year-old gender discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of workers in California after the U.S. Supreme Court barred a lawsuit representing Wal-Mart employees nationwide.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said in an order Friday that the plaintiffs have proposed a reduced class size to between one and several hundred thousand members.
The reduced class "could be certified," Breyer wrote, if it made a "showing consistent with the Supreme Court's decision" that a nationwide class action isn't appropriate.
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