Nike ordered to release additional information about pay practices in sweeping gender-discrimination lawsuit after Insider and other publications’ challenge of court seal A judge ordered Nike to unseal additional records in a sweeping gender-discrimination lawsuit. The ruling is a victory for news outlets that challenged the protective order in April. The lawsuit, filed in 2018, alleges that women at Nike were "devalued and demeaned." A judge on Friday granted a victory to a group of news outlets seeking to unseal additional records in a sweeping gender-discrimination lawsuit against Nike. In a 15-page ruling, US Magistrate Judge Jolie A. Russo said Nike must release more information about its pay practices, including information about what the plaintiffs allege is a pay gap between male and female employees. Nike had tried to block the release of the information, arguing that attorneys for the plaintiffs derived the pay information from confidential employee compensation data and that the release would allow competitors insight into Nike''s pay practices. Nike also disputed the accuracy of the calculation. Nike and the plaintiffs have 14 days to file written objections to the ruling.