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Wal-Mart workers represented by a Colorado law firm and other attorneys have won a roughly $6 million award in Minnesota, one of the lawyers said on Monday.
A jury is expected to decide the amount of punitive damages and penalties in October, according to the judge's order. And that could drive the amount Wal- Mart pays to hundreds of millions of dollars, said lawyer Frank Azar, whose Colorado firm was involved in the case and began fighting Wal-Mart in the 1990s.
"This is a big victory for us," Azar said.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Daphne Moore, reached on Monday evening, declined to comment on the case. "The court has asked both parties to refrain from sharing or discussing the order until (today)," she said.
Workers across the country have filed lawsuits claiming that Wal- Mart forced them to work off the clock and deprived them of meal and rest breaks.
Wal-Mart's lawyers have fought back aggressively.
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