By now, you’ve likely heard that today, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that a sex discrimination lawsuit waged on behalf of some 1.6 million women against Wal-Mart Inc. may not proceed as a class action, potentially saving the nation’s largest private employer billions in damages.
Additionally, the Court ruled (5-4) that in class action suits against employers, there needs to be “some glue holding together the alleged reasons for” the suit, with Justice Antonin Scalia adding in the majority opinion that such common threads were “entirely absent” in the Wal-Mart suit.
