Women’s Soccer Players Win Bid to Keep Pay Suit in LA (1)

The pay discrimination suit by Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, and other Women’s National Team players against the U.S. Soccer Federation Inc. will stay in the Los Angeles federal court where it was filed.

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California July 1 denied U.S. Soccer’s request to move the players’ proposed class suit to the Northern District of California, where former goalie Hope Solo filed a similar suit earlier.

The Northern District lacks connections with the suit, the Central District said.

U.S. Soccer said the players’ suit should be transferred to the Northern District ...