Women vs. Wal-Mart: How it happened

The Los Ange­les Times doc­u­ments how a Berke­ley rabble-rouser is tak­ing on Wal-Mart in the largest class action suit in the world.
Most inter­est­ing take-away: The suit prob­a­bly wouldn’t be pos­si­ble with­out the Inter­net, because lots of the documents–1.5million pages so far–can be stored online rather than shipped around, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the lawyers and law firms involved is a lot cheaper using email than con­fer­ence call­ing or fly­ing in for meet­ings.
It is unlikely that any deci­sion in the case will hap­pen before 2008, unless Wal-Mart decides to set­tle or hell freezes over first.