(March 1, 2016, 11:59 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 29 denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. seeking reversal of a July 7 decision by a split Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel finding that a follow-on gender bias class action filed against Wal-Mart after the high court’s decision in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (131 S. Ct. 2541 [2011]) was timely as it was filed under American Pipe & Constr. Co. (414 U.S. 538 [1974]) (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Cheryl Phipps, et al., No. 15-597, U.S. Sup.)....