Psychoblues
03-27-2011, 11:04 PM
Here is one where the SCOTUS can really show it's meddle for the corps. Wal-Mart has deliberately, repeatedly and clearly discriminated against women for as long as there has been a Wal-Mart. Sam Walton was a pretty good guy but even he was old school as hell but he could never hold a candle to his evil and greedy kids and their cohorts in power at Wal-Mart now. And I am a first hand and highly knowledgeable and credible witness for this case.
Source: Washington Post
by: Robert Barnes
Like the retail behemoth at its center, everything about the Supreme Court extravaganza known as Wal-Mart v. Dukes is super-sized.
The number of women who could be included in the sex discrimination class-action suit is measured in millions. The amount of damages for which the nation’s largest private employer could be liable is estimated in billions.
If the Supreme Court agrees the case can move forward, it would be the largest employment discrimination class-action suit in U.S. history. As Wal-Mart likes to point out, the suit could include more people than the number now serving in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard combined. Oral arguments are scheduled for Tuesday.
The prospect of such a massive lawsuit — or, alternatively, a ruling that hobbles workers from mounting class-action suits against large, national employers — has drawn an outpouring of competing briefs from corporate America and the nation’s leading civil rights groups.
The suit, filed by six female Wal-Mart employees in 2001, will also spotlight two intriguing story lines about the Supreme Court.
One is the perception, reinforced by President Obama, congressional Democrats and civil rights groups, that the court is overly protective of the corporate world. There is evidence to support the claim as well as exceptions, but there seems little doubt about how a ruling for Wal-Mart would be portrayed by liberal groups already suspicious of the court and the huge company........................................... .................................................. .................................................. ...................................
Much More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wal_mart_asks_supreme_court_not_to_allow_class_act ion_suit_by_female_employees_alleging_discriminati on/2011/03/25/AFTMXokB_story.html
As I understand it even if the SCOTUS caves to the corps in this case then the case is still not dead. It will simply be fought on much smaller and much more collectively expensive scales. As always, I hope to see justice done.
Psychochoblues
Source: Washington Post
by: Robert Barnes
Like the retail behemoth at its center, everything about the Supreme Court extravaganza known as Wal-Mart v. Dukes is super-sized.
The number of women who could be included in the sex discrimination class-action suit is measured in millions. The amount of damages for which the nation’s largest private employer could be liable is estimated in billions.
If the Supreme Court agrees the case can move forward, it would be the largest employment discrimination class-action suit in U.S. history. As Wal-Mart likes to point out, the suit could include more people than the number now serving in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard combined. Oral arguments are scheduled for Tuesday.
The prospect of such a massive lawsuit — or, alternatively, a ruling that hobbles workers from mounting class-action suits against large, national employers — has drawn an outpouring of competing briefs from corporate America and the nation’s leading civil rights groups.
The suit, filed by six female Wal-Mart employees in 2001, will also spotlight two intriguing story lines about the Supreme Court.
One is the perception, reinforced by President Obama, congressional Democrats and civil rights groups, that the court is overly protective of the corporate world. There is evidence to support the claim as well as exceptions, but there seems little doubt about how a ruling for Wal-Mart would be portrayed by liberal groups already suspicious of the court and the huge company........................................... .................................................. .................................................. ...................................
Much More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wal_mart_asks_supreme_court_not_to_allow_class_act ion_suit_by_female_employees_alleging_discriminati on/2011/03/25/AFTMXokB_story.html
As I understand it even if the SCOTUS caves to the corps in this case then the case is still not dead. It will simply be fought on much smaller and much more collectively expensive scales. As always, I hope to see justice done.
Psychochoblues