Wal-Mart Loses $7.5 Million Discrimination Suit

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7731983

Wal-Mart Loses $7.5 Million Discrimination Suit
Thu Feb 24, 2005 03:33 PM ET


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York jury awarded a former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employee who suffers from cerebral palsy $7.5 million in a discrimination lawsuit, the worker's lawyer said on Thursday.
The former worker, Patrick Brady, claimed that Wal-Mart transferred him from his job as pharmacy associate to a position picking up garbage and collecting trash in the parking lot after only one day of work, said lawyer Douglas H. Widgor. The case was heard in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Wal-Mart said that the store did not discriminate against Brady and that he was transferred at his request. "Although the jury has reached a decision, we do not expect the court to enter a final judgment until we have the opportunity to establish how the jury was wrong," the company said in a statement. "We are optimistic that the award will be substantially reduced or eliminated altogether."

Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart is in the midst of a national advertising campaign to burnish an image tarnished by claims of worker discrimination. The company is facing complaints throughout the world as it seeks to expand.

Public resistance to Wal-Mart's expansion has been particularly strong in California, where the retailer's campaign to improve its image began in 2004. The company's push for its first store in New York City was reported to have hit a snag this week after a real estate developer scrapped plans to include a Wal-Mart store in a Queens shopping center.

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1. This stinks,the poor Walton kids

How are they going to live on a crappy 40 zillion dollars each ?

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2. And with the appeals process, guess who won't get one cent?

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3. So how are they going to recoup the $7.5 million

by cutting employee wages?
Heaven's no they can't raise prices, it might allow some little guys to stay in business.