The series of discrimination lawsuits against Wal-Mart has officially become a trilogy, with news today that three Tennessee employees have sued the bloated retailer, claiming that they lost pay and promotion opportunities simply because they are women.

Daddy/daughter dances are almost always creepy. But do they constitute gender discrimination? If you're in Rhode Island they do.

Amid the storm of shit that is currently raining down on the fire-engine red signs of Chick-fil-A, the homophobic purveyor of fried chicken is now facing allegations of gender discrimination. According to GLAAD, former Chick-fil-A employee Brenda Honeycutt is suing the restaurant chain for wrongful termination stemming …

Jimmy Fallon has been widely recognized as one of the nicest guys in the late night business, but that hasn't stopped him from being sued for punitive damages and lost wages by former employee Paul Tarascio. Tarascio claims Fallon had him fired and replaced by a "totally incompetent woman." Tarascio accuses Fallon of a…

Wal-Mart is unveiling a plan to eventually double purchases from women-owned suppliers, and invest in the advancement of women at its various vendors and agencies. Not mentioned, as far as we can see: The over 1 million women who actually work in the stores.

As predicted, many of the women who were unable to sue Wal-Mart for gender discrimination as a class are preparing smaller-scale claims. Now they've been given more time to do so.

When Sandra Rawline, a branch manager at Capital Title of Texas, was told she had to dye her hair from its natural gray, the boss was extra helpful, even offering to dye Rawline's hair for her. Rawline refused, and the next week she was fired and replaced with a woman ten years younger.

Add about a thousand female Costco employees to the 1.5 million Wal-Mart women who are going to feel the impact of the Supreme Court's ruling on class action discrimination suits this week. Of course, the parties disagree on how much of a dealbreaker the Wal-Mart decision will be for the Costco case.

What would have been the largest discrimination case in history against the nation's largest private employer will not go forward as a class, thanks to the Supreme Court's decision yesterday. Here's what's next.

All nine Justices today agreed on a legal point about whether the women suing Wal-Mart count as a single class. It's where they disagreed, 5-4 along ideological lines, that matters — namely, whether you can have a discriminated class without a written policy of discrimination. Guess which side all three female justices …