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Ninth Circuit grants rehearing en banc in Dukes v. Wal-Mart, Inc.

Ninth Circuit grants rehearing en banc in Dukes v. Wal-Mart, Inc. You can access today's order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Previously, a divided three-judge Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the order of a California federal district court certifying the largest sex discrimination class action in U.S. history. You can access online the three-judge panel's original ruling and its amended ruling issued some ten months later.

You can access some of this blog's earlier coverage of this case here, here, here, and here.

It appears that the Ninth Circuit has carefully considered whether to grant rehearing en banc in this case, as Wal-Mart's rehearing petition presumably had been pending for about a year or so.

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).