The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied Wal-Mart Stores’ petition for certiorari seeking to overturn a $187.6 million class-action damages award against the company over wage-and-hour violations.
The denial lets stand a 4-1 ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in December 2014 in Braun v. Wal-Mart Stores and Hummel v. Wal-MartStores that affirmed the award. The majority found that despite the size of the 188,000-member class, the methods used to extrapolate liability and damages to each member did not constitute an improper “trial by formula” that deprived the retail giant of its due process rights.
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