Research Center: Legal Issues

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Save Money, Live Better: Wal-Mart’s State Tax Avoidance Schemes Wal-Mart, using tax avoidance schemes provided to it by the accounting firm Ernst & Young, has short-changed many states out of millions of dollars of state tax money.	07/21/08
Wal-Mart’s Taxing Strategies A report that looks at Wal-Mart’s tax loophole strategies.	05/30/08
Eugene Scalia: Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report Public financial disclosure from Eugene Scalia.	01/23/08
International Worker Rights Class Action Against Wal-Mart In the most comprehensive legal campaign yet, a suit was filed in September 2005 on behalf of workers from four continents for massive, systematic wage and hour violations.	01/23/08
Jared Bowen’s Complaint to the Department of Labor Jared Bowen, a young executive at Wal-Mart, was fired soon after reporting unlawful activity within the company’s headquarters.	01/23/08
Wal-Mart: A College Curriculum “Wal-Mart: A College Curriculum” is a 37-page, multi-disciplinary curriculum designed for college and university professors to incorporate into their undergraduate courses.	01/04/08
Wal-Mart Watch In Depth: Gender Discrimination At Wal-Mart The inaugural issue of Wal-Mart Watch’s issue paper, In Depth, focuses on gender discrimination at Wal-Mart and the massive class action lawsuit female employees are waging against the company.	01/04/08
Wal-Mart’s Wage and Hour Violations Wal-Mart is currently facing more than 80 lawsuits at various stages of the legal process. The potential financial impact of these cases and those still to come are massive, even for a behemoth such as Wal-Mart.	01/03/08
Dukes v Wal-Mart Class Action Certification Official certification of the class status of Dukes v Wal-Mart.	12/20/07
Savaglio v. Wal-Mart - Order Denying Wal-Mart’s Motion to Compel Plantiffs to Elect Remedies Order pertaining to a wage-and-hour case involving about 116,000 former and current Wal-Mart Stores Inc. workers.	07/23/06
Sweatshop Class Action Lawsuit Court documents regarding a class action suit, filed on behalf of sweatshop workers, in the state of California.	07/16/06
Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart Concerning Plan B Medication In 2006, three women from Massachusetts filed a complaint against Wal-Mart, alleging that its decision to not stock Plan B emergency contraceptive was illegal.	03/03/06
Global Labor Complaint Against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Filing for a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart for its continued use of unfair labor overseas.	09/13/05
Trucker Complaint of Racial Discrimination Although African Americans comprise approximately 15% of the OTR truck driver populations in the continental United States, only 2-3% of Wal-Mart’s OTR truck drivers are African American.	05/23/05