Any employer who wondered what effect the U.S. Supreme Court’s Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes gender discrimination case would have on private class action cases needn’t look any further than the top 10 employment discrimination class action settlements of 2012. At roughly $49 million in settlements, that total came in at the lowest level since 2006 and was far shy of the pre-Dukes total of $346 million in 2010.
“That’s a pretty dramatic difference,” says Gerald Maatman Jr., who co-chairs the class action litigation group at Seyfarth Shaw and co-authored the 800-plus page “Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report,” which the firm published January 14.
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