Goldman Executives’ Names to Stay Secret in Gender Pay Case (1)

The names of two Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives mentioned in years-old internal complaints won’t be made public in one of Wall Street’s biggest gender discrimination lawsuits.

US Magistrate Judge Robert Lehrburger Thursday rejected an attempt by a class of former female employees who sued the bank to unseal the identities and other information about one current and one former executive who were named in internal complaints almost two decades ago.

Lawyers for the bank had argued that release of the names would violate the men’s privacy and unnecessarily sensationalize the case. The women claimed that the public has a ...