Job applicants to Rite Aid Corp. won a round in their fight over the company’s pre-employment background checks, when a Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday denied the company’s motion to strike the designation of the putative class action as related to a similar case, saying both suits share a central core of common facts. Read more of Kelly Knaub’s article, Rite Aid Job Applicants Win Round In Background-Check Suit, in today’s Law 360.