Misleading headline. This was regarding whether to certify the actions as a class-action only. Individuals will still be able to sue on the merits of individual cases, just not in a class-action.
Much of the discussion this morning has been about how expensive it will be for WM to fight these individual court battles. Speculation is they will be forced to settle most of them.
I want to know how all those women are paying their legal costs. Is the ACLU paying for the lawyers? Ummmm, excuse me. Are you and I paying the ACLU to pay for their lawyers? When the defense is "free", claimants can keep it in court ad infinitum!
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But the implications for WalMart are massive. Individually, they can easily take on the cases. It will be swatting at fleas, using their existing resources. They will lose a few, win most.
If this class action had proceeded it could have cost WalMart billions.
“Misleading headline. This was regarding whether to certify the actions as a class-action only. Individuals will still be able to sue on the merits of individual cases, just not in a class-action.”
Not to mention there were a number of ancillary issues that Walmart barely won by a 5-4 vote. For instance, the Marxist Four wanted to send the class action lawsuit back to the lower court to be amended with a different “legal theory” and allowed to proceed from there. Fortunately, the five good folk on the court threw the whole thing out, sending the plaintiffs back to below square zero in starting over if they so choose. That would mean another 10 years to get back to the Supreme Court with a far more limited claim, not to mention no fees for at least 20 years from when the first suit started.
This decision kills the “coupon settlement” firms who made their stock and trade on certifying ridiculous class actions.