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"In January 2009, six former Wal-Mart employees filed a lawsuit against the mega-retailer, alleging the company wrongfully terminated them for completing an employee survey more than once.&nbsp;<br /><br />The case was slated for trial Monday, April 22, however, Wal-Mart settled on Friday, April 19, according to a courthouse official.<br /><br />After being bounced between federal and state courts for the last year, the case finally settled in Jefferson County Judge Donald Floyd&rsquo;s 172nd District Court.<br /><br />The suit was originally filed Jan. 14, 2009, in Jefferson County District Court by plaintiffs Sue Criswell, Glen Childers, Evelyn James, Cynthia Franks, Rochelle Durisseau and Cynthia Crain.<br /><br />In their suit, the plaintiffs contended they were &ldquo;loyal and long term employees.&rdquo;<br /><br />In January 2008, the former employees were asked to take an &ldquo;Associate Personal Opinion Survey,&rdquo; and were told they could take the survey more than once in order to reflect that 100 percent of store employees completed the survey.<br /><br />The plaintiffs contended that management informed them that the survey was confidential. However, after it was discovered Wal-Mart No. 499 scored low, the plaintiffs were pulled into the manager&rsquo;s office and questioned.<br /><br />&ldquo;Toward the end of February 2008 &hellip; some of the plaintiffs were asked if they had any complaints and responded that they weren&rsquo;t pleased that their wages had been capped,&rdquo; the suit states. &ldquo;On March 3, 2008, each plaintiff was escorted into (the manager&rsquo;s) office and was told they were being fired for gross misconduct and integrity issues, and taking the survey more than once.&rdquo;<br /><br />The three-count suit accused Wal-Mart of fraud, negligent misrepresentation and negligent supervision.<br /><br />The plaintiffs were suing for actual and exemplary damages, plus attorney&rsquo;s fees.<br /><br />Houston attorney Larry Watts represents them.<br /><br />Wal-Mart is represented in part by Melissa Judd, attorney for the Littler Mendelson law firm in Houston.<br /><br /><em>Case No. E183-026</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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