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Court to hear discrimination case in August

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 | 9:34 a.m.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court said Monday that it would hear an appeal Aug. 8 by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of a San Francisco judge's order approving class-action status for a sex-discrimination lawsuit representing as many as 1.6 million current and former women employees.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not comment on the merits of the appeal.

The suit claims that the retail giant set up a system that frequently pays its female workers less than their male counterparts for comparable jobs.

Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, said the company's 3,500 stores do not have a policy discriminating against women, and said the class of plaintiffs is so large that the case is "unmanageable."

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