In Pa. and Elsewhere, Walmart Faces New Discrimination Suits Based on 2001 Complaint
The Betty Dukes case still haunts Walmart's legal department, which is having to deal with the latest round of gender discrimination lawsuits filed by hundreds of women across a dozen states, according to the civil rights lawyer who's been behind the litigation since the beginning.
May 14, 2019 at 05:53 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Corporate Counsel
The ghost of Betty Dukes still haunts the aisles of Walmart Inc.—and the halls of Walmart's legal department, which is having to deal with the latest round of gender discrimination lawsuits.
Dukes, the former Walmart worker who died last July, led 1.5 million women into a class action lawsuit on gender discrimination in 2001, only to see the U.S. Supreme Court toss it on a technical ruling over procedure, not on the merits, in 2011.
Now in the footsteps of Dukes several hundred women across a dozen states or more are filing individual discrimination suits against Walmart, according to Christine Webber, a civil rights lawyer and partner with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll in Washington, D.C.
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