Wal-Mart v. Dukes Decision Rejects Wild Class-Action Theory

W4rl0ck · Jun 21, 2011

This was just an attempt by a group of forum shopping lawyers to extort a settlement from Walmart.

Hopefully the plaintiff lawyers lost their asses in expenses.

A lot of corporate lawsuits are poorly disguised extortion attempts like this one against a company trying to protect its brand name. They usually involve some politicized legal issue ('harrassment', 'discrimination", blah blah blah) where they hope to embarrass the company into a big settlement and the lawyers get most of the payout.

Lucrum · Jun 21, 2011

Quote from W4rl0ck:

This was just an attempt by a group of forum shopping lawyers to extort a settlement from Walmart.

Hopefully the plaintiff lawyers lost their asses in expenses.

A lot of corporate lawsuits are poorly disguised extortion attempts like this one against a company trying to protect its brand name. They usually involve some politicized legal issue ('harrassment', 'discrimination", blah blah blah) where they hope to embarrass the company into a big settlement and the lawyers get most of the payout.

You've just describe the US "justice" system.

Ricter · Jun 21, 2011

If that's the US justice system, then it has become a reflection of our economic system, ie. we all compete, the strong survive, in the long run we're all better off for it. That's a good thing, right?

tradinglucy · Jun 21, 2011

Quote from W4rl0ck:

This was just an attempt by a group of forum shopping lawyers to extort a settlement from Walmart.

Hopefully the plaintiff lawyers lost their asses in expenses.

A lot of corporate lawsuits are poorly disguised extortion attempts like this one against a company trying to protect its brand name. They usually involve some politicized legal issue ('harrassment', 'discrimination", blah blah blah) where they hope to embarrass the company into a big settlement and the lawyers get most of the payout.

Wal-Mart just needs better lawyers.

AAAintheBeltway · Jun 21, 2011

Quote from Ricter:

If that's the US justice system, then it has become a reflection of our economic system, ie. we all compete, the strong survive, in the long run we're all better off for it. That's a good thing, right?

No, actually the premise of the US justice system is the exact opposite. We are all equal before the law. Of course, Obama has done a lot to undermine this.

Ricter · Jun 21, 2011

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

No, actually the premise of the US justice system is the exact opposite. We are all equal before the law. Of course, Obama has done a lot to undermine this.

Yeah, decades (centuries?) of disparate outcomes in justice as described by criminology awaited only Obama to "collapse their wave function".

AAAintheBeltway · Jun 22, 2011

Quote from Ricter:

Yeah, decades (centuries?) of disparate outcomes in justice as described by criminology awaited only Obama to "collapse their wave function".

I have no idea what you're whinging about. Any system will make errors. That is far different from passing a government takeover of health care, then granting waivers to thousands of unions and companies that supported obama. That is called a denial of Equal Protection. We don't have one tax rate for ordinary people, and let obama grant a lower rate to his supporters. Yet that is exactly hwat he is doing with obamacare.

tradinglucy · Jun 23, 2011

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

No, actually the premise of the US justice system is the exact opposite. We are all equal before the law. Of course, Obama has done a lot to undermine this.

You still believe the "We are all equal before the law" clause? I can tell you right now its bogus.