United States Ninth Circuit

In a class action suit by women employees against Wal-Mart alleging sexual discrimination under Title VII, certification of plaintiffs' class with minor modifications is affirmed where there was no abuse of discretion in a conclusion that it would be better to handle this case as a class action instead of clogging the federal courts with innumerable individual suits litigating the same issues repeatedly. (Substituted opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/08/2005
• Decided 12/11/2007
• Published 12/11/2007

Judges

• Before:  HARRY PREGERSON, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., (argued & briefed) Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant-cross-appellee., Brad Seligman (argued), Jocelyn D. Larkin, The Impact Fund, Berkeley, CA;  Joseph M. Sellers, Christine E. Webber, Julie Goldsmith Reiser, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, D.C.;  Debra Gardner, Public Justice Center, Baltimore, MD;  Irma D. Herrera, Debra A. Smith, Equal Rights Advocates, Steve Stemerman, Elizabeth A. Lawrence, Davis, Cowell & Bowe, LLP, San Francisco, CA;  Stephen Tinkler, Charles Firth, Tinkler & Firth, Merit Bennett, Merit Bennett, P.C., Santa Fe, NM, (briefed) for the plaintiffs-appellees-cross appellants.