Posted: August 26th, 2010, 8:30am MSD
[JURIST] Wal-Mart [corporate website; JURIST news archive] petitioned [text, PDF] the US Supreme Court [official website] Wednesday to reconsider a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] affirming class action certification [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] in a gender discrimination case. The company has asked the court to examine whether the appeals court's April ruling was proper under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Due Process Clause, the Seventh Amendment and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 (FRCP) [texts]. Wal-Mart's position is that the class is overbroad and that the Ninth...