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Jun 8, 2012

Plaintiffs' Promise Of "Death By A Thousand Cuts" Comes True - Redux Of Dukes Allegations Continues With Thousands Of Individual Claims

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As we previously reported in this blog, the plaintiffs' class action bar are resourceful and creative, and their threatened tactic of imposing “death by a thousand cuts” continues following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S. Ct. 2541 (2011). Plaintiffs’ counsel in Dukes announced this week that nearly 2,000 current and former employees of Wal-Mart filed charges of pay and promotion discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since the SCOTUS dismantled the class certification order in that litigation. 

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