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DUKES v. WAL-MART, INC.

Nos. 04-16688, 04-16720.

474 F.3d 1214 (2007)

Betty DUKES; Patricia Surgeson; Cleo Page; Deborah Gunter; Karen Williamson; Christine Kwapnoski; Edith Arana, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. WAL-MART, INC., Defendant-Appellant. Betty Dukes; Patricia Surgeson; Cleo Page; Deborah Gunter; Karen Williamson; Christine Kwapnoski; Edith Arana, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Wal-Mart, Inc., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 6, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., (argued & briefed) Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant-cross-appellee.

Brad Seligman (argued), The Impact Fund, Berkeley, California, and Elizabeth A. Lawrence, Steve Stemerman, Davis, Cowell & Bowe, LLP, San Francisco, CA. Christine E. Webber, Joseph M. Sellers, Julie Goldsmith Reiser, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC, Washington, D.C., Irma D. Herrera, Debra A. Smith, Equal Rights Advocates, San Francisco, CA, Stephen Tinkler, Charles Firth, Tinkler & Firth, Santa Fe, NM, Debra Gardner, Public Justice Center, Baltimore, MD, Merit Bennett, Merit Bennett, P.C., Santa Fe NM and Jocelyn D. Larkin, The Impact Fund (briefed), for the plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants.

Terri L. Ross, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York, NY, for the amicus curiae.

Marissa M. Tirona, National Employment Lawyers Association, San Francisco, CA, for the amici curiae.

Ann Elizabeth Reesman, McGuiness Norris & Williams, LLP, Washington, DC, for the amicus curiae.

Michael Foreman, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for the amici curiae.

Daniel B. Kohrman, AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, DC, for the amici curiae.

Jeffrey A. Berman, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Los Angeles, CA, and Bill Lann Lee, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the amici curiae.

Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, for the amicus curiae.

Evelyn L. Becker, O'Melveny & Meyers LLP, Washginton, DC, for the amicus curiae.

Before HARRY PREGERSON, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs filed a class action suit against Wal-Mart alleging sexual discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The district court certified the class with minor modifications to Plaintiffs' proposed class. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(e). For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the district court, concluding that it did not abuse its discretion when it certified the class.

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