In Wal-Mart Case, High Court Ignores Women, Evidence

Company says it's too big to be sued by 1.5M female employees

(NEWSER) - Walmart will go before the Supreme Court today and argue that it is simply too big to face a class action gender discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of some 1.5 million current and former female employees. “They have brought a case that implicates 3,400 stores around the country,” Walmart’s lawyer tells NPR , complaining that it involves “women at all different levels of the store, from store managers to the entry-level positions." More»

Mammoth suit shouldn't go to trial, company argues

(NEWSER) - America's biggest retailer wants the Supreme Court to reverse a decision exposing it to America's biggest class-action employment lawsuit. Wal-Mart has asked the court to overturn a decision from a lower court allowing a massive gender discrimination suit against it to proceed, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The plaintiff class could number up to 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees. More»

Or at least, with parts of it

(NEWSER) - Today the Supreme Court heard the final arguments in the case over Arizona's controversial immigration law, and it's not looking good for the Obama administration. Justices seemed decidedly skeptical about the Justice Department's central argument that the law impinged on the federal government's power to control immigration, the Washington Post reports. "What could possibly be wrong," John Roberts asked, with having police check detainees' immigration status, and pass the information to the federal government? More»

It's not a metaphor: 'He's made a huntress out of me,' she says

(NEWSER) - They may be divided when it comes to judicial philosophy, but off the bench, liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and conservative Antonin Scalia are ... hunting buddies. While visiting Marquette University, Kagan revealed that Scalia, an avid hunter, hosted her many times on trips to shoot pheasant and quail, reports the Journal Sentinel of Milwaukee. More»

Left thinks so, but right defends Scalia and Co.

(NEWSER) - Today's big debate on health care reform seems to be whether the Supreme Court's conservatives were acting more like legislators than justices. Voices on the left think so and are raising cries of judicial activism. Pundits on the right disagree. A roundup of samples:

• EJ Dionne, Washington Post : Hey, he wonders, aren't liberal judges supposed to be the ones guilty of judicial activism? You wouldn't know it from the way Antonin Scalia and crew were acting—as if they were "they were members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee." He even trots out the term "judicial dictatorship." If the law is struck down, "a court that gave us Bush v. Gore will prove conclusively that it sees no limits on its power, no need to defer to those elected to make our laws. A Supreme Court that is supposed to give us justice will instead deliver ideology." Full column here .