- In the Wal-Mart case, The Supreme Court ruled against the women employees and denied their class-action lawsuit. The Court said the women did not meet the requirement of “commonality”, which is necessary for a group to be treated as a single legal “class.” The Justices argued that Wal-Mart did not have one unified discriminatory system. Rather, decisions about income and promotion were made by many different stone managers around the country. The problem was that each women had a situation unique to them, so the court said they could not show a common injury , and therefore couldn’t sue as one large group.
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