Welcome to your Tuesday open thread. It looks like our summer weather is back today, right for the start of official summer. One thing I love about summer around here is improved traffic.
I’m sure you’re extremely shocked to learn that the Supreme Court sided with corporations over people once again. SCOTUS de-certified a class action lawsuit of female employees against Wal-Mart.
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out an enormous employment discrimination class-action suit against Wal-Mart that had sought billions of dollars on behalf of as many as 1.5 million female workers.
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The court divided 5 to 4 along ideological lines on the basic question in the case — whether the suit satisfied a requirement of the class-action rules that “there are questions of law or fact common to the class” of female employees. The court’s five more conservative justices said no, shutting down the suit and limiting the ability of other plaintiffs to band together in large class actions.
The women can sue Wal-Mart separately, but it will be the little gal vs the big corporation and Wal-Mart will probably be able to drag out the case longer than most of the plaintiffs will be able to afford.
You have probably read by now that CNN’s Ed Henry is leaving to go to Fox News. Atrios has his usual pithy remark about that:
So in recent years “journalists” John Roberts, Bill Hemmer, and now Ed Henry have jumped ship from CNN to Fox (could be more that I’m forgetting), and then continue to do the job they did before. It’s amazing.
The title of his post is “Amazingly They Fit Right In.” Again I ask – what liberal media? The only thing the current media lives in fear of is being called “liberal” – not wrong, not misleading, not conservative.