A federal judge in New Jersey declined last week to give final class certification to a suit by former Wal-Mart janitors over the labor practices of the world's largest retailer. The judge found that, because the 114 putative class members worked for a variety of contractors around the country, and not for Wal-Mart directly, they could not show they were "similarly situated" for class action purposes.
June 30, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A federal judge has declined to give final class certification to a suit by former Wal-Mart janitors over the labor practices of the world’s largest retailer.
On June 25, Chief U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown in Trenton, N.J., found that because the plaintiffs worked for a variety of Wal-Mart contractors around the county, not for the company directly, they could not show they were “similarly situated” for class action purposes.
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