The federal government got off the sidelines Thursday to throw a few blocks for plaintiffs in a huge gender class action against Wal-Mart. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is opposing Wal-Mart's bid to try punitive damages on a case-by-case basis, according to an amicus curiae brief the commission filed with the 9th Circuit. The move is a reversal, as the commission had previously declined to intervene. Wal-Mart's lawyer, Theodore Boutrous Jr., called the EEOC's position "fundamentally incorrect."
March 20, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The federal government got off the sidelines Thursday to throw a few blocks for plaintiffs in a huge gender class action against Wal-Mart.
The move is a reversal by the U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission, which had previously decided to sit the case out. Instead, the EEOC now opposes Wal-Mart’s bid to try punitive damages on a case-by-case basis, according to an amicus curiae brief the commission filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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