Not a good day for Wal-Mart. First, a federal jury hit the Beast with a $7.5 million judgement for discriminating against a disabled employee in Long Island. Too bad for Wal-Mart: unlike the sham deal with the DOL, in which Wal-Mart paid a fine but also claimed it was not admitting any guilt, here it’s pretty clear that the company’s corporate rap sheet just got another black mark entry.

Then, we learn from the NYTimes’ Steve Greenhouse (who gets kudos for his regular reporting on Wal-Mart) that the developer of a large Queens, NY shopping mall has dropped Wal-Mart from the mix of potential tenants—no doubt because there was a pretty big fight brewing over the possibility that Wal-Mart might try to move in.

And being out here in Los Angeles (where it finally stopped raining for at least a few days), I caught a front-page piece in today’s Los Angeles Times by Nancy Cleeland and Deborah Vrana talking about Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott’s foray out here as part of the Beast’s p.r. offensive. As the article says, “The timing of his remarks was in some ways unfortunate. As he spoke in Los Angeles, Alabama announced that Wal-Mart employees used state medical benefits at a higher rate than those from other companies, joining a handful of states that have identified the retailer as the biggest drain on public health costs. That was the latest bit of unflattering publicity. Last month, the Labor Department said it found underage workers operating heavy equipment in some stores. It was later disclosed that the federal agency had agreed to give the Bentonville, Ark.-based company 15-day advance notice of pending citations and a chance to fix them. That deal is being investigated by the department’s inspector general. Wal-Mart’s low prices were blamed for this week’s bankruptcy filing by Southern grocery chain Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. In addition, the retail giant faces a class-action lawsuit claiming that it systematically discriminated against women and federal charges that it employed illegal immigrants as contracted janitors and paid them less than minimum wage.”

Sweet.