Every year the Supreme Court reverses by a 9-0 vote multiple cases decided by left wing judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco. Today the Court issued a decision reversing the Ninth Circuit on a big one, Dukes v. Wal-Mart, in which six female employees brought a class action on behalf of all female employees and former employees of America’s largest private sector employer.
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By Ken Klukowski
03/30/11 7:23 PM
Justices of the Supreme Court this week considered a pivotal aspect of a sex-discrimination lawsuit — Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes — against an icon of American industry. Most lawsuits involve individuals or small groups. They bring a case as plaintiffs, and if the court has jurisdiction over the defendants, then all parties are bound by the court’s judgment. That’s a cornerstone of due process. There’s a special exception called a class-action lawsuit. It takes four things.
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