Wal-Mart has prevailed in a nearly decade-long class-action litigation over its use of contract janitorial services that hire immigrant labor.
On Aug. 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed decertification of the class in Zavala v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 11-2381, ruling the “similarities among the proposed plaintiffs are too few, and the differences among the proposed plaintiffs are too many.”