Women Of Wal Mart

Two women arrested in Walmart theft scam operation in Rockmart, Ga.

A Polk County woman and a Bartow County woman were arrested in a Wal-Mart theft scam operation in Rockmart.

On Saturday. June 18, 2011, Rockmart police were dispatched to Wal-Mart in reference to a shoplifting in progress.

 According to Wal-Mart loss prevention, two females were shoplifting items from the store by filling totes and garbage cans with merchandise and then returning the stolen items for a credit.

 Loss prevention had been watching the suspects for a while as the pair had made multiple transactions where one female would exit the store with the stolen items and the other female, who was outside in the vehicle, would then return the items in exchange for Wal-Mart gift cards.

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Walmart low prices are at the expense of women's paychecks

The issue that the class action hinged on? Commonality. Apparently because the majority did not think that all the 1.5 million women of Wal-Mart had a common experience, the case can't be a class action suit. I wonder where they leaves other large class action suits ? But what really got my goat is the implication that Wal-Mart is so large that it can't be held responsible for what a few "bad" managers do in respect to women employees. Really? Wal-Mart is too large to sue for sex discrimination? Oh hell no! Really? This clearly shows that Scalia has no idea what happens in the real world and hasn't had to cold apply for a job since high school. A real, cold, apply for a job. Not a "My uncle Bob called his fraternity brother Skip and he wants to  meet you" interview. This from someone who should have recused himself due to his son being connected to the case. And conservatives complain about "the Chicago way" just getting to DC in Obama's backpack. HA! "Today’s ruling underscores the need to act boldly and strongly on behalf of women’s rights: we must pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to ensure that women receive equal pay for equal work," Pelosi continued. "It is a matter of fundamental fairness in our nation, and we must work — in the courts and in Congress — to correct this injustice throughout our country." This was NOT a decision on the merits of the case. Merely on the ability for the women of WalMart to sue as a class action; This means that the individual women will need to make a decision if they will go this alone. After ten years, the word is that most of them will continue on; There is also some thought that perhaps instead of one big class, there will be a lot of smaller classes (managers, floor workers, executives, etc). We'll have to wait and see.  Until then, I'm thankful I can keep my hard money out of Walmart's aisles.

Some coverage of the opinion is pretty misleading. The questions presented were only procedural ones, but based on Scalia's language in the opinion, he has changed the standard for establishing class action cases and has essentially written, in dicta, that if a corporation has a policy that says "no sex discrimination," there's no way to allege a class action suit for that.

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