- What did the Supreme Court decide in the Wal-Mart case? .And more importantly, how did it justify its decision? (HINT: the key word here is “commonality” (and how it related to “class-action lawsuit”). Try to understand what this legal terms means, as it is key to the court’s decision).
The supreme court decided to put an end to Betty Dukes v. Walmart stores which was a case that pitted over 1.5 million female Walmart workers against the country’s largest private employer. The court made commonality central to their ruling. The article states, “Scalia argued that to claim “commonality” a class must not only share a common problem but also a common solution to that problem—one that would compensate all members equally in a single stroke.” Throughout the year’s many female workers for Walmart noticed that they were being discriminated against and treated differently than men were. women were being paid less although they were doing the same type of work. The article mentioned how a woman who worked for walmart for many years trained a new young men to later find out she was receiving less then his pay.
