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Fourth Circuit Not Putting Up Its Dukes Against Class Actions

The plaintiffs also alleged that Wal-Mart's failure to stop this subjective, discretionary authority was illegal on a class-wide basis. The ...

Fourth Circuit Weighs in on Supreme Court's Class Action Decision

Wal-Mart did not set out a per se rule against class certification where discretion is alleged. Instead, to satisfy commonality, a plaintiff ...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. V. Betty Dukes, et al., The Supreme Court ...

The three named Plaintiffs seeking to represent the class claimed they had been discriminatorily denied promotions and pay in violation of Title ...

WAL-MART V. DUKES AND A T& T MOBILITY V. CONCEPCION

In Wal-Mart, the Court held that under Rule 23, a class action case for intentional employment discrimination could not proceed when the allegedly ...

Supreme Court to Weigh Huge Class Action in Wal-Mart Sex Bias ...

v. Dukes, is the largest job bias lawsuit in the nation's history. The lead plaintiff, Betty Dukes, is a Walmart greeter. When the suit was ...

Private: Mixed Forecast for Class Actions After Wal-Mart | ACS

All hope is not lost for class action plaintiffs in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's ruling in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, posits a Reuters ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Signals That Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. V. Dukes ...

It also makes clear that Dukes applies to post-trial reviews. The true impact of Wal-Mart v. Dukes on wage and hour class actions remains to be ...

Wal-Mart v. Dukes - SCOTUSblog

Judgment: Reversed, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Scalia on June 20, 2011. Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan joined the opinion as ...

What Do You Need To Know About Wal-Mart v. Dukes?

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes—in which a majority declined to certify the largest class action discrimination case in ...

US Supreme Court issues opinion in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc v. Dukes

In Wal-Mart Stores, Inc v. Dukes, No. 10-277, the Supreme Court reversed the class certification of a sprawling Title VII lawsuit against ...

Brief of respondent for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., v. Dukes, 10-277

Research articles are sub- mitted to professional journals such as the American. Sociological Review and the American Journal of. Sociology ...

Wal-Mart v. Dukes- Predictably, Another Anti-Class Action Decision ...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S.Ct. 2541 (2011). The decision in this closely-watched employment discrimination putative class action, ...

Wal-Mart v. Dukes ruling is out of sync with 21st-century sex ...

In Wal-Mart v. Dukes, the Supreme Court set a dangerous precedent when it ruled that the women in the class action suit could not prove a ...

The Supreme Court sides with Wal-Mart | Salon.com

Case history: In 2001, Betty Dukes, a "greeter" at a northern California Wal-Mart, filed suit for gender discrimination and sought to certify a ...

Supreme Court Issues Far-Reaching Decision In Wal-Mart v. Dukes

On June 20, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes , and as most everyone predicted, it is a resounding ...

The Ominous Expansion of Class-Action Suits: Walmart v. Dukes

In 2000 an ex-greeter named Betty Dukes sued Walmart under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (an obvious intervention in the market) for lack of promotion.

Ninth Circuit Upholds Largest Discrimination Class Action Ever

Dukes v. ... The class was estimated to be over 1.5 million female employees and former employees who worked in Wal-Mart's 3,400 stores.

The Downstream Implications of Wal-Mart v. Dukes for Medical ...

Medical monitoring is anchored in tort law and the reason is simple: statutory remedies are often lacking for toxic exposure. The environmental regulatory ...

"Implausible Injuries: Wal-Mart v. Dukes and the Future of Class ...

In 2001, a class action suit was brought against Wal-Mart, where plaintiffs sought to certify a class of every woman who did work for the giant retailer or ...

U.S. Supreme Court Issues Opinion in Dukes, et al. v. Wal-Mart ...

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Dukes v. Wal–Mart Stores, Inc., which will transform Rule 23 law and ...