The bad news is, it's going before a Supreme Court that has made itself known for being so Right-wing, so Republican and so Conservative that the likelihood is strong that they may well come down in favor of the big, ugly and all-powerful corporation, Civil Rights be damned.
Some brief background (from NPR and their website):
The U.S. Supreme Court takes on the biggest employment discrimination case in history on Tuesday — a case that pits Wal-Mart against roughly 1.5 million of its current and former female workers.
The case was filed 10 years ago, and Tuesday's argument is Wal-Mart's last-ditch effort to prevent a trial. The issue comes down to whether Wal-Mart is too big to be sued in a single nationwide class action lawsuit claiming gender discrimination.
The chutzpah of attorneys and a company claiming they're "too big to be sued" is just so nearly incomprehensible, I'm not sure if I want to scream or bang my head against a wall.I love and agree with what the women's attorney, Joseph Sellers, said earlier today, in the story: "There is no large company exception to the Civil Rights laws."
So true.
Think about it--if this is true, that companies can be "too big to be sued", then Civil Rights and your and my claim for them go out the window, folks. Sure, you and I, individually, can sue a company we work for.
Right.
Good luck with that.
First, you won't keep that job you need so there goes feeding your family or keeping that roof over your head.
Then, good luck finding a new job.
And this is just one note of a long list of things I can find and say that's wrong with this going in Wal-Mart's and corporate America's favor.
God help us. I hope this goes right and for us, for the plaintiffs, the women.
Links: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134866747/can-a-business-be-too-big-for-a-class-action-suit
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126787308&ps=rs
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