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Wal-Mart, Target to Pay Massachusetts for Overcharges

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. will pay Massachusetts towns and cities $232,000 to settle claims that they overcharged public agencies for prescriptions covered by workers compensation insurance. Attorney General Martha Coakley announced the settlement on Tuesday. It was filed …

Wal-Mart Paying $4.8M for Overtime Violations

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay $4.8 million in back wages and damages to more than 4,500 employees nationwide for unpaid overtime, The Labor Department said Tuesday. The Bentonville, Ark.-based company also will pay nearly $464,000 in civil penalties for violating …

Attorney Says Arizona Man Innocent in Wal-Mart Incident

The attorney for a man forcibly taken down by Buckeye police at a Wal-Mart says he plans to clear his client of the criminal allegations stemming from an alleged shoplifting incident. Todd Nolan says multiple witnesses have come forward to …

Court Upholds Jury Verdict in $10M Colo. Wal-Mart Case

A truck driver who slipped and fell on ice and grease while making a delivery to a Wal-Mart store in northern Colorado can collect a nearly $10 million award after the state Supreme Court upheld a jury verdict in the …

Women Launch New Legal Salvo Against Wal-Mart

Women pursuing discrimination claims against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed a reformulated lawsuit against the world’s largest retailer, their first since a massive nationwide class action collapsed earlier this year. The amended lawsuit announced Thursday confines its allegations to women workers …

Pennsylvania Woman Wins 2-Cent Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart

A judge says Wal-Mart must pay up for overpricing sausages by two cents. Consumer activist Mary Bach was awarded $100 in damages and $80 in court costs Thursday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. Bach, of Murrysville, says sausages she purchased last …

Wal-Mart Plaintiffs Set for a Return to Court

Plaintiffs in a huge sex bias class-action case against Wal-Mart Stores Inc that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court will begin to unveil plans Friday for how they will try to resuscitate their lawsuits. Lawyers for the women …

ANALYSIS: Big Business Scores Key US Supreme Court Term Wins

Giant retailer Wal-Mart Inc, telecommunications company AT&T Inc and coal power companies came out the big winners in the Supreme Court’s just-ended term that rejected large lawsuits against them. The high court threw out the largest sex-discrimination lawsuit in U.S. …

Supreme Court Denies Huge Sex Bias Class Action Against Wal-Mart

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Monday in the largest sex-discrimination lawsuit in history, saying class-action status for female employees seeking billions of dollars had been improperly granted. The justices overturned a U.S. appeals court ruling …

Wal-Mart Loses $187.6 Million Worker Rest Appeal in Pennsylvania

Wal-Mart Stores Inc has lost its appeal of most of a $187.6 million verdict for Pennsylvania hourly workers who accused the world’s largest retailer of denying them meal and rest breaks. A three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania …