Supreme Court Rejects Class Action in Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination Suit
Posted on | June 20, 2011 | No Comments
In a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Wal-Mart Monday when it rejected a class action suit brought by 1.5 million female employees of Wal-Mart.
The court said that there was not enough commonality among each case of discrimination, pointing to the fact that Wal-Mart left most pay and promotion decisions up to each individual store manager.
“Without some glue holding together the alleged reasons for those decisions, it will be impossible to say that examination of all the class members’ claims will produce a common answer to the crucial discrimination question,” the court said in its official decision.
The court continued on to say, “In a company of Wal-Mart’s size and geographical scope, it is quite unbelievable that all managers would exercise their discretion in a common way without some common direction. Respondents attempt to make that showing by means of statistical and anecdotal evidence, but their evidence falls well short.”
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