U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Wal-Mart Class Action Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Wal-Mart's bid to throw out a more than $150 million class-action judgment over the retailers' treatment of workers in Pennsylvania. The case had been on hold at the high court while the justices weighed an appeal brought by Tyson Foods in a separate class-action case. On March 22, the court ruled 6-2 in the Tyson Foods case in favor of workers at a pork facility in Iowa who said they were entitled to overtime pay and damages because they weren't paid for the time spent putting on and taking off protective equipment and walking to work stations.