- The supreme court decided in the Betty Dukes v. Wal-Mart case that over 1.5 women who worked at Walmart that sued Walmart due to gender discrimination ruled that there was a lack of commonality which means that they did not share enough issues legally and because of the sheer size of the lawsuit. Because of the sheer size of the lawsuit the class was not able to reach commonality because the court argued that not every woman worker has problems receiving higher pay, promotions and faces gender based discrimination which made it hard to find a commonality as a class. The Supreme Court was unsure on how to find a solution to every problem that every worker was having because to claim commonality you needed to have a common problem but also have a common solution that could compensate everyone fairly and equally and because they didn’t come from the same store with the same manager many problems were different in the eyes of the Supreme Court.
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