The U.S. women’s soccer team and the sport’s governing body Monday received a California federal judge’s final approval of their settlement of part of the women’s class sex bias suit, clearing the way for the team to appeal its loss last May on the issue of equal pay.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted the players’ March 15 motion for partial final judgment in the 2019 suit, after the players and the U.S. Soccer Federation Inc. fulfilled the terms of an agreement settling the women’s nonpay claims. Those claims alleged discrimination in other terms and ...