A U.S. District Court Judge in Oregon recently refused to certify a proposed sex discrimination class action filed by a group of current and former female employees against Nike. The ruling cited insufficient evidence that a potential class of 5,200 female employees were harmed due to a company policy or practice of basing lower pay for female employees due to their former job’s pay.

The case originally alleged that female employees were paid on average $11,000 a year less than male counterparts. Nike claimed there was no discrimination. The ruling did not dismiss that there is a pay discrepancy but that plaintiffs did not provide the statistical data to show that previous job’s starting pay was used as a data point in that determination.

While the class certification has been denied, the 14 plaintiffs in the case can proceed with their individual claims.