Walmart Supreme Court Sex-Bias Case: Too Big to Sue?

[stevenleser]

http://www.ibtimes.com/blog/political-theater/walmart-sex-discrimination-decision-too-big-sue_118.htm

Some of the worlds biggest corporations were protected from bankruptcy at the end of the financial downturn by a policy dubbed “Too Big to Fail”. Now we have a ruling from the US Supreme Court that has dubbed one large corporation “Too big to Sue” that may have a significant impact on future plaintiffs ability to initiate class action suits against large corporations.

I've spent some time reading through the full decision by the court and what I see is upsetting, but more background first. There is a lot but I think you will agree it is worthwhile to read through the end.

The big issue decided by the court is whether the claims by women alleging gender bias and discrimination can be pooled together into a class action lawsuit. Class action suits terrify large corporations because many individuals can join the suit easily vastly increasing the potential liability of the corporation. It also attracts the best legal teams to represent those in the class action again because of the potential for a huge payday as the legal team would typically receive a percentage of the winnings.


More at above link

[Warpy]

1. The USSC as it now is constituted means it's too corrupt to bother suing

any corporation with the means to go all the way to the USSC.

[stevenleser]

2. Kick

:kick:

[stevenleser]

3. Kick #2

[Initech]

4. First off, I'm not defending Wal-Mart by any means. What I was told this suit means is this:

An individual representing an entire group of people cannot represent that group in a class action suit. A class action suit has to be everyone's supportive of the decision, or no one's supportive of the decision. One person cannot represent a group of like 40,000 people.

Now what they did rule, however, is that the individual can still file a lawsuit regarding treatment from the workplace, they just cant represent a large group of people.

[stevenleser]

5. Not the case.

Check the article all the way through. It explains exactly what was at issue.