On behalf of a proposed group of over 150,000 California Wal-Mart workers, Equal Rights Advocates and its co-counsel, led by Hadsell Stormer Richardson & Renick and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, filed a motion to certify a new class of plaintiffs in Dukes v Wal-Mart.

The new proposed class includes women at California Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores who allege that company managers discriminated against them because of their gender, denying them pay increases and promotions offered to male employees.

The new motion was filed in the Northern District court in San Francisco, where over 12 years ago ERA and co-counsel first filed the original Dukes case — a nationwide suit on behalf over over 1 million Wal-Mart employees.

Previously, District Judge Charles Breyer denied Wal-Mart’s motion to dismiss the new iteration of the case.

To learn more about the new motion, click here for a press release. To support ERA’s continued efforts to combat pay discrimination, check out our Close the Gap campaign.

Judge Breyer is expected to hear the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification in July.

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