| − | <div class="cnnBlogContentPost"><p class="cnn_first">The Supreme Court's conservative majority didn't appear impressed Tuesday with plaintiffs' arguments that more than 1 million female Wal-Mart workers, past and present, should be able to accuse the retailer of discrimination in one class-action lawsuit,?CNN senior?legal?analyst Jeffrey?Toobin said.</p><p>Though a ruling isn't expected until late June, the might portend a defeat for six plaintiffs who want to band with employees from across the country and make their accusations in a single, massive trial, Toobin said.</p><p>"I thought it was a very good day in court for Wal-Mart, and I would not be at all surprised if the whole case were thrown out after listening to the justices today,” Toobin said on ",gucci sito ufficiale;CNN Newsroom,Face-attack suspect's mother My son 'was."</p><p><span id="more-66744"></span>The Supreme Court is deciding whether the original lawsuit, in which six female Wal-Mart workers allege systemic discrimination in which the retailer paid women less than men and gave women fewer promotions, can be given class-action status.</p><p>A decision to allow such a large suit, with nearly 1.6 million potential plaintiffs, would represent an enormous litigation risk for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Should Wal-Mart lose such a suit, it could face tens of billions of dollars in damages.</p><p>But the Supreme Court's conservative justices appeared skeptical of arguments for allowing a class action, Toobin said,<a href="" target="_blank">polo ralph lauren</a>.</p><p>Both sides concede that Wal-Mart has official policies barring discrimination against women and ?listing diversity as an important value, Toobin said.</p><p>"What the plaintiffs' lawyers were saying (Tuesday) was that that policy was so vague that it gave local, individual store managers the opportunity to discriminate against women," Toobin said,[Updated at 11:32 a.m. ET]. "The more conservative justices on the court were saying, 'Well, if that’s the case, how can you try them all together? Because each store had a different set of circumstances,Recall Sunscreen could burst into flames on skin -. How can you do a class action when the policy is a fair one, a good one, and it’s only the individuals who were possibly discriminated against?'"</p><p>A decision to allow a class-action suit might lead Wal-Mart to try to settle the case to get the "enormous risk off its books," Toobin said.</p><p>"But after today, I think Wal-Mart will be a lot less willing to settle, because it looks like much or all of the case may be thrown out by what is an increasingly conservative Supreme Court," Toobin said.</p><p><strong>– CNN Supreme Court Producer?Bill Mears and CNN's Randi Kaye contributed to this report.</strong></p></div>
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