Defense Groups File Their Amicus Submissions In Dukes

On January 27, 2011, 10 amicus briefs were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Defendant in Dukes, et al. v. Wal-Mart.

While amicus briefs are not unusual in Supreme Court appeals, the number of amicus briefs filed in the Dukes case is unusual, and manifests the high-stakes which employers and the plaintiffs' class action bar confront in this litigation.

Seyfarth Shaw submitted amicus briefs on behalf of Costco Corp. [click to link to Costco brief], and the Society of Human Resource Management and the HR Policy Association [click to link to SHRM brief].

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