The ruling was likely to kill about 35 such actions filed in federal court, according to plaintiffs' lawyers. Minnesota Plaintiffs The Minnesota plaintiffs are Nancy Braun, who worked at a Wal-Mart store in Apple Valley; Debbie Simonson and Cindy Severson, who worked in Brooklyn Park; and Pamela Reinert, who worked at stores in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Each said she worked off the clock and was denied meal and rest breaks. Wal-Mart's own audits found that its hourly workers were missing rest and meal breaks, King said. Wal-Mart argued at trial the audits were unreliable, he said. ''Wal-Mart management responded to the audits with no action,'' he wrote. ''They put their heads in the sand.'' King said the evidence didn't support workers' allegations that Wal-Mart managers falsified records by inserting meal breaks into employee records.