Wal-Mart Disparity Memo Stays Under Wraps
Wal-Mart Disparity Memo Stays Under Wraps
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Wal-Mart did not waive confidentiality over a legal memo that describes stark gender disparities in pay and promotion at the company, a federal judge ruled.
The attempt to remove attorney-client privilege from the memo is the most recent turn in the Betty Dukes-led 2001 federal class action that claims Wal-Mart paid women less and offered them fewer promotions than it offered men in comparable positions.
After the U.S. Supreme Court famously disbanded a massive class of such workers in 2011, the Northern District of California is currently weighing a bid to certify a more narrow class.
This group wants to open, read and use information from a package that they received, containing a 1995 memorandum created by Wal-Mart's outside counsel Akin Gump Strauss Haller & Feld at the direction of Wal-Mart's in-house counsel.
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