The U.S. women’s soccer team asked a California federal judge on Friday to lay the groundwork for an immediate appeal of the judge’s ruling a week earlier tossing the team’s sex-based pay discrimination claims out of court.
Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, and more than 20 other women players suing the U.S. Soccer Federation also asked Judge R. Gary Klausner of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to stay the scheduled upcoming trial of the team’s separate working conditions claims until after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit resolves their planned appeal of his ...