Legal

A retail industry group asked the U.S. government to delay plans to expand the internet’s address system, saying store owners need more time to assess the impact of adding hundreds of web suffixes such as .bank and .nyc.

Women pursuing discrimination claims against Wal-Mart filed a reformulated lawsuit Oct. 27 alleging the world's largest retailer treats its female workers in California unfairly. Plaintiffs alleging that the company denied them pay raises and promotions because of gender bias are regrouping after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled a class of up to 1.5 million current and former Wal-Mart workers in June.

Looks like the couple who attempted to trademark "Occupy Wall Street" earlier this week aren't the only people trying to make a buck off of the protests. An Atlanta man is trying to get his own related trademark: The words "occupy this" with an arrow pointed down.

The owner of Price Chopper supermarkets is suing the operator of ShopRite after searches for “Price Chopper” on Google and other search engines turned up ads for ShopRite. Price Chopper’s parent, Golub Corp., filed the action late last week in U.S. District Court in Albany.

It was only a matter of time before opportunists started to look for ways to cash in on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Now both the 99 percent and the 1 percent are trying to claim 100 percent of the movement. 

Wal-Mart stores in the Chinese city of Chongqing reopened to surging crowds today, two weeks after being shut down by local authorities for violating food and product standards. 

Consumers should be prepared to start seeing sales tax collected on more and more of their online purchases as cash-strapped states look for additional sources of revenue, says tax industry research group CCH, a Walter Kluwers business.

California retailers got another rap on the knuckles in February when the state Supreme Court decided that requesting ZIP codes is a violation of a 40-year-old credit card law. According to some legal analysts, however, the ruling by the Golden State’s highest court may not be the last word on the subject: The opinion may be too broad, leaving the door open to different interpretations and exceptions.

Major League Baseball is in St. Louis, telling Cardinal fans to watch out for counterfeit merchandise. But why should fans even care if a sale has baseball's stamp of approval? 

Something very interesting happened to Urban Outfitters' website: all 21 of the company's products that had been called "Navajo" vanished. At least at first glance.