Biz: Show offs. Wal-Mart anticipated costly class-action bias suit
- 1995 Wal-Mart hired a bunch of lawyers to see if they might be vulnerable to a costly class-action discrimination suit from female workers.
- 2001 A bunch of female workers file a class-action suit against the company, claiming bias. It then winds its way through the courts.
- 2010 A lower court decides to let the suit go forward. Wal-Mart plans to appeal that obvious decision all the way to the Supreme Court. source