After more than a decade of litigation, the highly-publicized mega-class-action suit Wal-Mart v. Dukeswas brought to a screeching halt. On June 20, the United States Supreme Court threw out what would have been the largest private civil-rights class-action suit in United States history had it been allowed to proceed. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, No. 10-277, 2011 U.S. LEXIS 4567 (U.S. June 20, 2011).
Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, has approximately 3,400 stores throughout the country and employs more than one million people. If the Supreme Court had upheld the Ninth Circuit’s class certification, Wal-Mart’s potential exposure could have exceeded $4 billion.
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