In April, Goldman Sachs, whose building is picturedhere, asked to weed out the majority of the women in the class,citing arbitration agreements they signed. (Photo:Shutterstock)
(Bloomberg) –Women suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in one of the era'sbiggest Wall Street gender-discrimination lawsuits asked a federaljudge this week to stop the bank from forcing more than 1,000 ofthem into arbitration.
Lawyers for the group argue that Goldman has waited too manyyears to now try to push them out of open court andinto the closed-off system of arbitration. Theycite their case's 755 docket entries, 376 discovery requests, 100letters to the court, 44 motions, 33 days of depositions and 20expert reports. Goldman said in a separate filing that arbitrationis standard on Wall Street.
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