They should’ve sued Sam’s Club. Nothing is too big for Sam’s Club.
And anyway, suing Wal-Mart is kinda like suing Emperor Sidious:
The Supreme Court put the brakes on a massive job discrimination lawsuit against mega-retailer Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., saying sweeping class-action status that could potentially involve hundreds of thousands of current and former female workers was simply too large.
Huh. “Too large.” Further clickage (see below) indicates that it wasn’t just the size: it was that the potential breadth of plaintiffs might have lumped together people with very different circumstances, so it wasn’t fair to Wal-Mart.
It wasn’t fair to Wal-Mart. Read it and squirm, haters!
The lawyers got greedy, in other words. If only they’d have limited their class-action suit to…oh, I dunno, 1.2 million people instead of 1.6 million.
Ed Morrissey has a lot more detail, including:
(The ruling) practically dismantles employment discrimination class-action lawsuits while keeping very much in place legitimate individual claims, or classes where specific commonalities of discrimination took place.
Ann Althouse links the Washington Post, which also has a lot more detail, including:
The court’s rejection of using statistical analysis to prove a common practice of discrimination could be key to the viability of future class-action discrimination suits against large employers.
I shoulda just linked WaPo in the first place, but CNN was on Memeorandum, which is where I found the story. Usually, my tendency toward laziness would have ended the whole thing there. Not this time. Lucky you.
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