Content about U.S. Supreme Court

June 28, 2012
Retailers displeased with upheld healthcare mandate

The U.S. Supreme Court has given the government permission to tax people for not having health insurance, essentially approving the individual mandate in President Obama's healthcare law.

January 19, 2012
Wal-Mart seeks end to re-filed gender-bias lawsuit

A Tuesday report by Reuters said that Wal-Mart filed a motion on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit filed last October by a regrouping of women whose earlier gender bias class action was ended by the U.S. Supreme Court.

March 31, 2011
The new East and the old West

Walmart’s past and future collided this week in a stark juxtaposition of events. While the company’s lawyers were engaged in oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court stemming from events in the past, senior executive of the international division were gathered with financial analysts in a hotel ballroom in Shenzhen, China to discuss the future.

March 30, 2011
Wal-Mart sex discrimination case hits possible court block by Supreme Court

A report released Tuesday by the Associated Press said that the U.S. Supreme Court may block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of at least 500,000 women, and that could make it harder for other workers nationwide to bring class-action claims against large employers.

December 5, 2010
Supreme Court to hear Wal-Mart appeal in gender bias case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether to certify the largest class-action...

April 26, 2010
Wal-Mart Stores suffers class action setback

The AP reported Monday that a sharply divided federal appeals court on Monday exposed Wal-Mart...

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