In the Wal-Mart case, the Supreme Court decided that the group of women who sued Wal-Mart for discrimination could not move forward as a single class-action lawsuit. The Court justified its decision by saying that the women did not show enough “commonality” meaning they didn’t have enough in common to be treated as one group for the lawsuit. The Court explained that, for a class action lawsuit to happen, everyone in the group must have the same legal issue in a clear way. In this case, the experiences of the women were too different from each other, so the Court said they couldn’t combine all their claims into one big lawsuit.