March 12, 2018
A class of 80,000 Walmart cashiers called for sanctions against the retail giant Friday, saying the company's attorneys failed to initially disclose information used in its experts' reports and swamped the workers with evidence late in their case over California state law-required seating.
February 27, 2018
Walmart Inc. fired back Monday against 80,000 cashiers who are resisting class decertification in their suit alleging the retail giant fails to provide them with California state law-required seating, arguing the workers can't prove it's reasonable for Walmart to give seats to all of its cashiers.
February 20, 2018
A group of 80,000 cashiers claiming Wal-Mart Stores Inc. failed to provide them with California state law-required seating defended its class certification in federal court Friday, arguing that Walmart's own studies and prior testimony back up the workers' claims.
January 05, 2018
Walmart asked a California federal court on Thursday to decertify an 80,000-member class of cashiers alleging the retail giant violated state law by failing to provide them seats, claiming that the members can't provide common answers in light of a recent state high court ruling.
January 03, 2018
A class of Walmart cashiers alleging the retail giant violated state law by failing to provide them seats claimed Tuesday in California federal court that by providing seats to cashiers with disabilities, the company has already acknowledged that their work reasonably permits seating.
January 01, 2018
California attorneys in 2018 will be closely watching big-ticket cases in the employment and intellectual property areas, including a $400 million design patent trial between Samsung and Apple, another Apple case that will test whether employees must be compensated for time spent in bag checks, and a high-profile fight over the rights of artists to exclusively control public performances of their pre-1972 song recordings. Here, Law360 looks at five major cases attorneys in California and elsewhere will be following closely.
April 20, 2017
A California federal judge told Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Thursday that he's planning a fall 2018 trial on allegations the retailer violated state law by failing to provide seats for cashiers, adding momentum to the case in the wake of a Ninth Circuit decision affirming class certification.
June 08, 2016
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will have to face a class of workers accusing the company of violating California law by failing to provide seats for its cashiers, the Ninth Circuit said Wednesday in a decision that followed the state Supreme Court's ruling clarifying the seating rule.
August 27, 2012
A California federal court on Friday certified a class accusing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of violating state law by failing to provide seating to thousands of cashiers, despite the retail giant's argument that the case will require fact-specific inquiries that make class treatment inappropriate.
October 20, 2010
A federal judge has allowed ex-Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cashiers to move forward with a putative class action accusing the discount retailer of violating California labor law by failing to provide them with seats.