This week an appeals court ruled that a lawsuit charging Wal-Mart with paying women less than men, and granting them less promotions, could remain a class-action suit.

NY Times/Reuters has this on details:

The plaintiffs estimated they could win billions of dollars in lost pay and damages and that as many as two million women who have worked for Wal-Mart in its American stores since 1998 could join the suit.

But the court left open the option for Wal-Mart to file a new petition for a rehearing, and a Wal-Mart lawyer, Theodore Boutrous, said the retailer intended to do so.

The three-judge panel of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not reconsider its own decision affirming class certification to the case, but would allow both sides to appeal to the full court.

According to the WSJ, although the decision narrowed the potential pool of plaintiffs a bit, it will remain a class action making it the biggest sexual discrimination case in US history. Certainly Wal-Mart will appeal again, but apparently it will be harder to overturn the decision.

Looks like we are another step closer to getting some justice from the bosses of Bentonville.