Goldman Sachs struck out earlier this month when it cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Concepcion v. AT&T Mobility in a bid to knock out part of a high-profile sex discrimination class action.
Now Goldman’s lawyers have wheeled out another big ruling on class actions from the Court’s last term—Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores—to try to extinguish the plaintiffs’ class discrimination claims altogether. On Friday, in a 19-page motion based almost entirely on Dukes, Goldman urged Southern District Magistrate Court Judge James Francis IV to strike class claims brought by three former female employees, asserting that they “mimic” the Dukes plaintiffs’ failed class allegations. The Dukes decision “redefined the employment landscape,” Goldman argues, ensuring that the women’s claims “cannot survive.”
