9th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Enormous Class Action Against Wal-Mart
In Dukes v. Wal-Mart , the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a District Court decision certifying a nationwide class consisting of all women who have worked at Wal-Mart since the end of 1998. According to the ABA Journal , this is the largest class action suit ever, consisting of over one million plaintiffs. As noted by the Marquette Law School Faculty Blog , the dissent by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski sets up a Petition for Certiorari , and the case may be headed for the United States Supreme Court.