US Women’s Soccer Pay Bias Pact Gets Nod, Lawyer Fees Unresolved

The $24 million pay discrimination settlement the US women’s soccer team reached with the sport’s national governing body received final approval from a Los Angeles federal judge.

But the US District Court for the Central District of California said it will further consider whether the team’s lawyers’ $6.6 million share of the class action settlement is too large, as former star goalie Hope Solo argued in objecting to the motion for final approval.

The motion for attorneys’ fees and expenses “is taken under submission,” Judge R. Gary Klausner said Monday in docket entry on the motion hearing. He gave the ...