July 23, 2021
Members of the U.S. women's national soccer team told the Ninth Circuit on Friday they had to far outperform male players in order to earn the same amount, kicking off a closely watched equal-pay appeal that one expert said raises novel legal issues.
May 07, 2021
U.S. Soccer and members of the women's national soccer team will meet with a federal mediator to assess whether further settlement talks are necessary in the players' high-profile discrimination and equal pay class action, a move that is an apparent long-shot bid to avoid going through with the players' Ninth Circuit appeal of the dismissal of those claims.
April 15, 2021
U.S. women's national soccer team players have moved ahead with a much-anticipated appeal, telling a California federal court they are asking the Ninth Circuit to revive pay discrimination claims against United States Soccer Federation Inc. that a judge nixed.