How many times did Wal-Mart violate Minnesota state labor laws? Jesse Russell has the number.

Two million times. That is how many times Dakota County Judge Robert King, Jr. says Wal-Mart violated labor laws by cutting worker break time. The ruling came on Monday as part of a class action lawsuit and the world’s largest retailer has been ordered to pay $6.5 million in damages. For Wal-Mart, that $6.5 million is a drop in the bucket, but a flood could be coming in October. That’s when a jury will assign civil penalties and punitive damages to the company. The class-action lawsuit covers 56,000 Minnesota Wal-Mart employees who worked for the company between September 1998 and January 2004. Wal-Mart is considering an appeal of the judge’s decision.