https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/12/lawyers_for_microsoft_discrimination_case_given_grilling_by_judge/ > US District Judge James Robart had some challenging questions for lawyers representing a group of female ex-Microsoft staff for gender discrimination in a Seattle District Court yesterday. > At issue in the hearing was a motion by lawyers for the plaintiffs – engineers Katherine Moussouris, Holly Muenchow, and Dana Piermarini – to band together as a class with 8,630 other female high-technical specialists in a class action. At a motion hearing, the plaintiffs' lawyers proposed to include in the suit over 8,000 other women who had worked in tech jobs for Microsoft in the United States since 2012.