PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – Class members and Bashas’ Inc. have settled a lawsuit a more than decade-old alleging the grocery store company discriminated against Hispanic employees.

Bashas’ agreed to pay $6.5 million to resolve claims for class damages, administrative expenses, service awards to the Gonzalo Estrada and Aurelia Martinez and attorneys fees and costs, according to the plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary approval of class action settlement filed Aug. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.