Tag Archives: Wal-Mart Stores

Wal-Mart Prevails in Credit Card Class Battle Over Practice of Collecting Addresses and Phone Numbers

By Julian Perlman on October 8, 2013 Posted in Class Actions Privacy, Consumer Class Action

Editor’s Note: This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor blog. In a victory for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., a federal district court judge has refused to certify a Rule 23(b)(3) class in a lawsuit for violation of California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (Cal. Civ. Code § 1747 et seq., available here. Plaintiff … Continue Reading

Seventh Circuit Upholds Lower Court Decision Denying Class Certification in Gender-Based Pay Discrimination Case

By Jeanine Conley on March 30, 2012 Posted in Class Certification

Contrary to the Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in McReynolds, in which the Court allowed issue certification in the wake of Wal-Mart, in Puffer v. Allstate Insurance Co., No. 11-1273 (March 27, 2012), the Seventh Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling denying certification for female employees who claimed that the Allstate Insurance Company’s (“Allstate”) compensation policies … Continue Reading