Ogletree Women Make Move to Preserve Sex Bias Class Action

Two women among a group accusing Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C. of sex-based pay discrimination against female shareholders nationwide asked a federal court in California to make them named plaintiffs and to move part of the case to Colorado.

Those measures are necessary to preserve the class equal pay claims Dawn Knepper asserted when she first filed the case, Jocelyn Campanaro and Angelica Ochoa say in a motion filed May 9 with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Campanaro, Ochoa, and Alicia Voltmer were added to the lawsuit as opt-in plaintiffs under the ...