{"id":3764,"date":"2021-07-03T17:28:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T17:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2021-07-03T17:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T17:28:50","slug":"12-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/2021\/07\/03\/12-1\/","title":{"rendered":"12.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>What did the Supreme Court decide in the Wal-Mart case? And more importantly,&nbsp;how did it justify its decision? (HINT: the key word here is \u201ccommonality\u201d (and how it related to \u201cclass-action lawsuit\u201d). Try to understand what this legal term means, as it is key to the court\u2019s decision).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Wal-Mart case lawsuit against Walmart, the Supreme Court determined that a group of about 1.5 million women could not be recognized as a viable class of plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit for worker discrimination against Walmart. The Supreme Court decided to take Walmart\u2019s side even though the evidence showed how \u201cWal-Mart paid its male employees more than its female employees in every one of the store\u2019s forty-one retail regions.\u201d And how men and their performance were rated higher. These facts stated in the article clearly showed how these women were being discriminated against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did the Supreme Court decide in the Wal-Mart case? And more importantly,&nbsp;how did it justify its decision? (HINT: the key word here is \u201ccommonality\u201d (and how it related to \u201cclass-action lawsuit\u201d). Try to understand what this legal term means, as it is key to the court\u2019s decision). In the Wal-Mart case lawsuit against Walmart,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-12-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}