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Class-Action Suit Against Wal-Mart Was Too Big to Succeed: View
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Everything about Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is big. Total sales, at $422 billion last year, exceeded the gross domestic product of all but 18 countries. Its 4,300 U.S. stores employ more than 1.4 million people, more than any other U.S. company.
So the verdict handed down yesterday by the U.S. Supreme Court in Wal-Mart v. Dukes was suitably outsized; it decided the largest workplace discrimination case in history. The decision, which was unanimous in one part, and split along the familiar 5-4 ideological lines in another, was the correct one.