For several weeks now, attorneys and legal academics across the country have dissected the U.S. Supreme Court’s Wal-Mart v. Dukes (pdf) decision, which shut the door to a 1.5 million class of current and former female Wal-Mart employees who are claiming that they were denied pay increases and promotions because of their gender. In striking down class certification, the Supremes held that there was no commonality among the member of the class, that is, no “glue” that tied all of their discrimination claims together.
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