The New York Times
Mon, December 06, 2010 -- 10:45 AM ET
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Wal-Mart Bias Case
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal in the
biggest employment discrimination case on record, one
claiming that Wal-Mart discriminated against hundreds of
thousands of women in pay and promotion. The lawsuit seeks
back pay that could amount to billions of dollars.
The question before the court is whether claims by individual
employees may be combined as a class action. A decision on
that issue will almost certainly affect all sorts of other
class action suits. If nothing else, many pending class
actions will slow or stop while litigants and courts await
the decision in the case.
Wal-Mart objects to the class action in part because the
number of potential claimants would be so large. Lawyers for
the plaintiffs argue that the size of the class is inevitable
because Wal-Mart is such a huge company, and is anyway
legally irrelevant.
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