Consumers slapped Walmart, Sam’s Club and Taylor Farms, one of nation’s largest producers of salad greens, with a class action Monday night for selling E. coli-tainted lettuce that has sickened people in 25 states and killed one person in California.
Read moreWalmart “does not have a leg to stand on,” a federal judge said late Friday when he denied its motion to decertify a class of employees accusing it of violating state labor law by failing to provide them with chairs.
Read moreCameras at Walmart self-checkout counters illegally collect personal information, including eye and hair colors and facial features, in violation of the Song-Beverly Act, a class action claims in San Diego Superior Court.
Read moreRetailers across the nation are being sued for using a “corrective education” program that is tantamount to extortion, a class of accused shoplifters claim in federal court.
Read moreA former high-level executive in Walmart’s e-commerce division sued the retail giant Thursday, claiming he was fired for pointing out consistent fraud that harmed investors and consumers.
Read moreA 20-year-old Oregon man filed age discrimination lawsuits against Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods on Monday, claiming that the retailers refused to sell him rifles because he was under 21.
Read moreA consumer claims in a federal class action that Walmart discriminates against black customers by locking up “hair and body products meant for African-Americans” and segregating them from products for white people, which are not locked up.
Read moreWalmart said Thursday that it will raise the starting salary for U.S. employees to $11 an hour, pay out a one-time cash bonus for eligible associates of up to $1,000, and expand maternity and parental leave benefits.
Read moreWalmart will pay to install a filtration system at one or more schools near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach by next year, part of a settlement Wednesday over the retail giant’s failure to complete emissions-system upgrades on its fleet of trucks.
Read moreA truck driver accused of carrying 10 immigrants to their deaths in a sweltering tractor trailer in July pleaded guilty Monday to human-smuggling charges.
Read moreA 48-year-old man diagnosed with intellectual development disorder claims in court he was fired Wal-Mart after it reneged on a promise to train him to use a new computerized time-keeping system at his story.
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Federal prosecutors charged a Florida man on Monday with human smuggling resulting in the deaths of 10 immigrants who were found trapped inside a sweltering tractor-trailer in a San Antonio Walmart parking lot over the weekend.
Read moreBy KRISTIN J. BENDER, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Wal-Mart greeter who took the retail giant all the
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A teenager killed an Uber driver with a machete and knife she had just stolen from Wal-Mart, the man’s family claims in a civil lawsuit against Wal-Mart and its security service. The teen has been charged with first-degree murder.
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A Maryland appeals court upheld an injunction against a labor union that staged mass demonstrations against Walmart in company stores and parking lots.
Read moreStartled by maggots in a candy bar she bought at Walmart, a Texas woman spit out a mouthful and jumped from her moving car, the traumatized woman claims in court.
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The family of an Iowa woman killed in a fatal crash sued Wal-Mart and the man accused of driving unconscious through the front entrance of an Iowa store at 48 miles per hour.
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