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March 30, 2011

Supreme Court Hears Walmart Sex Discrimination Case 
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The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments over an effort to bring a
massive class action sex-discrimination lawsuit against the retail giant
Walmart. On Tuesday, attorneys for Walmart urged justices to block a
group of past and current female workers from filing the case. Plaintiff
and Walmart worker Betty Dukes said she had brought the suit on behalf
of the company's women employees across the nation.

Betty Dukes: "I brought this case because I believe that there was a
pattern of discrimination at Walmart, not just in my store, but I
believe it is across the country. Since we have filed our lawsuits in
2001, I have heard from numerous women, telling me basically the same
story as mine of disparative treatment in lack of promotion, as well in
lack of pay."



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