Now THIS is a feminist issue

[american-geist.livejournal.com]

Hey friends, enjoy having no rights, forever! Especially ladies, apparently you got discriminated against too many times for the Supreme Court. This country is horrible!

"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.

The ruling Monday was a big victory for the nation's largest private employer, and the business community at large.

The high-profile case– perhaps the most closely watched of the high court's term– is among the most important dealing with corporate versus worker rights that the justices have ever heard, and could eventually impact nearly every private employer, large and small.

The case is Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (10-277)."



 

Comments

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/wal-mart-v-dukes/

Thr ruling was indeed 9-0, but 4 of the justices wrote dissents on all or part of the ruling. Those are in the record and can be used in future rulings on the same matter once the "class" better defines itself.

Though this is a perfectly armchair exercise, do you, Jeff, think there is any systematic discriminatory behavior on the part of Wal-Mart, today's ruling notwithstanding.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Thr ruling was indeed 9-0, but 4 of the justices wrote dissents on all or part of the ruling. Those are in the record and can be used in future rulings on the same matter once the "class" better defines itself.

They wrote dissents, yes, but the dissents weren't nearly that major to the broader point of the ruling. There's this sudden, yet predictable, urge to turn the dissents into something they aren't. I'm not surprised.

Though this is a perfectly armchair exercise, do you, Jeff, think there is any systematic discriminatory behavior on the part of Wal-Mart, today's ruling notwithstanding.

Systemic? No. Do I think that, in a company that employs millions, there may be individual cases? Absolutely. Putting aside my feelings about discrimination laws for the moment, it's entirely possible (maybe probable) that these women have a case on their own.