Wal-Mart has been at the centre of a massive sex discrimination class action lawsuit.
Two years after the bill was signed into law, lawyers and judicial experts are taking stock of the legislation, particularly as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently weighed in on the Wal-Mart sex discrimination class-action case, ruling that several current and former employees can represent all women taking action against the company.
Two years after the bill was signed into law, lawyers and judicial experts are taking stock of the legislation, particularly as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently weighed in on the Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) sex discrimination class-action case, ruling that several current and former employees can represent all women taking action against the company.
All the themes of upper-class English life are here: sex and incest, class, inequality and the enduring tussle over whether the best path to success is through hard work or effortless charisma.
We imagine that the criminal justice system is fair, that it turns a blind eye to race, sex, or class.
Dr Phillips and his colleagues compared 58 diabetic children with 172 non-diabetic ones matched for age, sex, social class and pediatrician.
In May Merrill Lynch agreed to replace its mandatory policy with a voluntary one as part of a settlement of a class action sex discrimination suit.
An amazingly successful contrivance: this Agatha Christie-style house-party murder mystery, set in 1932, plants itself deep into social reality and achieves the kind of candor about class and sex that Christie would never have been capable of.
But while Hilton is appropriately young, rich and well-connected, she's not exactly a cover girl for class, what with those sex tapes, drug charges and reality TV shows.
And chances are good that if she pursues a career as a physician or dentist, she and the other women in her class will be the majority if not superior sex.
Mr Bell said that reflecting these strong male images, girls can be less confident than boys in class - and he said some schools were experimenting with single-sex classes to offset this.
The denial is still striking, however, since in Wal-Mart the court struck down a class action on behalf of 1.5 million women who lawyers said all had suffered sex discrimination.
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