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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.
They’d make up for the loss by buying more crap from China.
This is a massive victory, not just for Wal-Mart, but our entire country. It turns back a lot of issues that cause these lawsuits. See more here:
From that article: “In a decision written by Justice Antonin G. Scalia, the court held that the plaintiffs’ “only evidence of a general discrimination policy was a sociologist’s analysis asserting that Wal-Mart’s corporate culture made it vulnerable to gender bias.”
Because the sociologist couldn’t say “whether 0.5 percent or 95 percent of the employment decisions at Wal-Mart might be determined by stereotyped thinking … we can safely disregard what he has to say,” Scalia wrote.
The court’s decision also rejected statistical and anecdotal evidence provided by the plaintiffs as too weak to demonstrate that Wal-Mart acted against the plaintiffs in a way that applies “generally to the class.”
The court’s ruling is “a win for employers,” according to Gerald L. Maatman Jr. and Laura J. Maechtlen, partners at Seyfarth, Shaw LLP, commenting on the ruling. They were not part of the litigation.
“In short, the Supreme Court’s opinion repositions the goal posts on the playing fields of how workplace class actions are structured, defended and litigated,” Maatman and Maechtlen wrote in The Workplace Class Action Blog.
The plaintiffs’ attorneys issued a statement saying, “the plaintiffs are disappointed by the sharply divided decision issued by the U.S. Supreme Court today reversing class certification in Dukes v. Wal-Mart.
“The court’s ruling erects substantially higher barriers for working women and men to vindicate rights to be free from employment discrimination. The ruling does not, however, address whether Wal-Mart committed sex discrimination against its women employees.”
This is a massive win. Come on conservatives, we keep winning, let’s take Congress and the WH next.
It will be harder for individuals to file suit. Lawyers will want to be paid up front, unlike class action suits..