The Supreme Court decided that the women in the Wal-Mart v. Dukes case couldn\u2019t move forward as one big class action group. Basically, the Court said there wasn\u2019t enough \u201ccommonality\u201d between all their situations. For a class-action lawsuit everyone has to be able to point to one shared issue or one companywide policy that caused the discrimination. In this case Wal-Mart didn\u2019t have one big rule that treated women unfairly. Instead every store manager made their own decisions about pay and promotions. Because of that the Court said the women\u2019s experiences were too different from each other what happened in one store might not be the same as what happened somewhere else. So the Supreme Court\u2019s reasoning was that without a single common policy causing the problem the group didn\u2019t meet the requirements to be considered a class. In other words the claims weren\u2019t similar enough to link all the women together in one lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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