As far as we know, U.S. Supreme Court opinions don’t have their own Facebook profiles. If they did, we’re guessing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg might want to add the court’s Wal-Mart v. Dukes ruling as a friend.
Dukes came through for the social networking giant and its lawyers at Cooley on Friday, when Oakland, Calif., federal district judge Phyllis Hamilton refused to certify a class of advertisers that accuse Facebook of systematically overcharging them. In a 24-page decision, Hamilton ruled that the advertisers hadn’t met the heightened standards for showing class commonality set forth by the Supreme Court in its 2010 ruling for Wal-Mart.
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