The Supreme Court decided that the women who worked at Wal-Mart could not move forward as a class-action lawsuit because they didn’t show “commonality.” That means the Court didn’t believe they all had the same problem or experience. The Court said each woman’s case was too different. This is important because “class-action” needs a shared problem for the group. The reading showed how Wal-Mart had patterns of discrimination, but the Court ignored that and focused only on legal rules.