U.S. Women’s Soccer Pay Bias Trial Pushed Back Due to Covid-19

Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, and more than 20 other women’s soccer players will have to wait a little longer to present their pay discrimination claims against the U.S. Soccer Federation Inc. to a jury, the Central District of California said.

Trial in the closely-watched case will now start June 16 instead of May 5, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California said Wednesday, granting the parties’ joint application for guidance on key dates in the litigation in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The case, which has been certified as a class action by Judge R. Gary Klausner ...